[Spacewalk-list] Can't install post kickstart install

Lachlan Musicman datakid at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 23:27:58 UTC 2016


Ah, ok. Thanks.

It's becoming clearer now. Did I miss something, or is it that I'm just not
aware enough of how these systems work...

Hmmm.

cheers
L.

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On 5 April 2016 at 08:57, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 5 Apr 2016, at 8:41 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We have an SSL cert on that page - is that not enough? Do I need a
> separate gpg key? I would presume the cert was sufficient - at no point in
> the documentation did I see an explicit instruction to make one of each?
>
>
> That is not sufficient. That is the CA certificate for your Spacewalk
> instance. It's not the GPG key for the CentOS RPMs. You need to create a
> GPG key with the content from CentOS and deploy it during kickstart, so
> that yum has a valid GPG key against which to test the signature of the
> RPMs.
>
> So, you'd need to get a copy of the CentOS GPG key (usually found in
> /etc/pki/rpm-gpg on an already installed machine) and create a GPG key with
> the content of that key. You would then need to update your Kickstart
> Profile to deploy that GPG key during install, so that packages can be
> installed during the post-install phase, i.e. after registration with
> Spacewalk and post the Anaconda process.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Avi
>
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