[Spacewalk-list] Upgrade and rhn.conf

[Jan Dobes]

On 13.11.2015 15:41 Steve Kent wrote:
> I would appreciate any assistance that can be offered. I have always
> been able to upgrade versions, and never encountered an issue.
>
> This time when I went from 2.3 to 2.4 I ran into an issue where the
> rhn.conf file is being replaced with the default redhat settings. I can
> copy my backup version and re-run the setup and it will still be replaced.
>
> Is there an additional file or table that is missing information or
> something? Is there a reason my database settings are being overwritten
> by the spacewalk-setup step in the upgrade?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance!
>
> Steve Kent
>
>
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Hello,

this seems as a bug to me. The spacewalk-setup should reuse existing DB 
settings and if it doesn't know any value, it should ask and add it to 
the rhn.conf.

Regards,
-- 
Jan Dobes
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat