[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart package dependencies

[James Feister]

I have observed this on CentOS 6.  I am able to help with testing
packages.  I can set up a test environment of CentOS 6 or 7 to deploy it
on.  It would help me get a feel for the codebase as well.

Jim

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 4:30 AM, Tomas Lestach <tlestach at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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,
> --
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Trying to kickstart a centos 7 system with spacewalk and cobbler.
> >
> > The base for centos7 contains amongst others the following packages
> >
> > rhn-client-tools-2.0.2-6.el7.noarch.rpm
> > rhnlib-2.5.65-2.el7.noarch.rpm
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > rhnlib-2.5.75-1.el7.noarch.rpm
> > rhn-setup-2.3.16-1.el7.noarch.rpm
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Am I overlooking something or is there a workaround for this?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Jim
> >
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