[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart package dependencies

[James Feister]

Thanks, Setting up test environment now.

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Tomas Lestach <tlestach at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello James,
>
> here're the packages for Spacewalk 2.3 on:
> RHEL6: [1]
> RHEL7: [2]
>
> If, you'd like to apply them, do:
> 1. download the rpms to a local directory
> 2. stop spacewalk services
> 3. rpm -Fvh *.rpm
> in the local directory
> (this will freshen the installed packages,
> what means it will update only spacewalk-java-postgresql or
> spacewalk-java-oracle
> according to what you have installed, not both)
> 4. start the spacewalk services
>
> Let me know, if it helped you.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Tomas Lestach
> Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
> [1] https://koji.spacewalkproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=186076
> [2] https://koji.spacewalkproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=186078
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "James Feister" <openjaf at gmail.com>
> > To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> > Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 6:27:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart package dependencies
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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