[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart package dependencies

[Tomas Lestach]

Do you use Spacewalk 2.3? On what OS?
I could try to build scratch packages with a quick fix for you.
(Not sure, if it will work, but we can give it a try.)

Regards,
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Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat


----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Feister" <openjaf at gmail.com>
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:50:36 PM
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart package dependencies
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> Trying to kickstart a centos 7 system with spacewalk and cobbler.
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> The base for centos7 contains amongst others the following packages
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> rhn-client-tools-2.0.2-6.el7.noarch.rpm
> rhnlib-2.5.65-2.el7.noarch.rpm
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> According to this branch on git hub
> https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/pull/215 some
> functions in these packages were renamed from pune to puny. The new
> packages from
> http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.3-client/RHEL/7/x86_64/ reflect
> this change.
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> rhnlib-2.5.75-1.el7.noarch.rpm
> rhn-setup-2.3.16-1.el7.noarch.rpm
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> The problem is when creating a kickstart for the centos machine,
> there are two lines a 'wget and rpm' that will only request and
> update the following packages
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> libxml2-python-2.9.1-5.el7_1.2.x86_64.rpm
> libxml2-2.9.1-5.el7_1.2.x86_64.rpm
> pyOpenSSL-0.13.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
> rhnlib-2.5.75-1.el7.noarch.rpm
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> The request and install are sucessfull but it does not include the
> updated rhn-client-tools that uses the newer puny naming. It is when
> the client executes rhnreg_ks that it is calling the original
> function names that have changed.
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> I have tried removing the older package versions and replacing my
> kickstart distribution basechannel packages with the newer ones but
> the dependencies fail for the rhnlib-2.5.65-2.el7.noarch.rpm.
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> Am I overlooking something or is there a workaround for this?
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> Thanks,
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> Jim
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