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

Tue Apr 5 04:22:50 UTC 2016

A combination of this, forcefully pushing the relevant RPM-GPG-KEY-*s via a
configuration channel and a post-install script (putting them into the
kickstart profile-> System Details -> GPG & SSL and asking them to be
installed was not sufficient), and the deleting of all the files in
/etc/yum.repos.d/ means I can now successfully install on a
post-kickstarted machine.

I am convinced that there is something broken in one of the supplied
kickstart/cobbler snippets that is failing and then the rest of the
snippets are failing, causing the files to not be pushed.

One of those snippets is attempting to contact the outside world and that
is failing because the outside world is proxy protected and the curl
command doesn't know how to get around the proxy. That failure is
cascading. At least, that's my reading.

Cheers
L.

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On 5 April 2016 at 11:33, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> The second one requires file:// based URLs, which is why I use a
> configuration channel. I specify it locally:
>
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7
>
> (The three / characters are correct: the protocol is file:// and it starts
> from the / directory, hence file:///etc...)
>
> If the key is deployed via kickstart, it doesn't appear here (but that's
> OK, because it's already in the RPM database). You would need to deploy a
> file using a configuration channel to this location if you have
> non-kickstarted servers.
>
> You can leave the URL field empty if all your servers will be kickstarted
> and have the key added during install.
>
> Cheers,
> Avi
>
> On 5 Apr 2016, at 11:18 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Avi - on the second one, should I be supplying the official URL, or
> the url of my copy of the key? Do I need to fill out all three fields, or
> just one?
>
> cheers
> L.
>
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> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
> way."
>
> - Grace Hopper
>
> On 5 April 2016 at 11:01, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You put them in the first two. The third location (in the repository) is
>> to configure SSL certificates to communicate with the repository. Commonly
>> used for RHN-based repos (and perhaps SUSE repos, but I'm not sure about
>> that).
>>
>> The first location adds the GPG key to Spacewalk, so you can deploy it
>> during kickstart.
>> The second location configures where yum will look for the GPG key (if
>> not already installed) and how to verify that it has the right one.
>>
>> I also have a GPG Configuration Channel so that I can deploy keys to
>> machines that were not installed via kickstart, but still need to have the
>> keys installed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Avi
>>
>> On 5 Apr 2016, at 10:44 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One final question. Now I have the relevant GPG keys, do I put them:
>>
>>  - in System -> Kickstart -> GPG and SSL keys, then activate them in the
>> profile   OR
>>  - in Channels -> Manage Channels -> the Channel in question -> Basic
>> Channel Details, at the bottom   OR
>>  - in Channels -> Manage Channels -> Manage Repositories -> Repository in
>> question.
>>
>> Or do I put them in all three, or just two. In the third option - the
>> Repositories - the drop down only allows for the single SSL cert that I
>> created at the start, none of the GPG keys are available.
>>
>> Cheers
>> L.
>>
>> ------
>> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
>> way."
>>
>> - Grace Hopper
>>
>> On 5 April 2016 at 09:27, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> ------
>>> The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this
>>> way."
>>>
>>> - Grace Hopper
>>>
>>> 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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