[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.4 and Ubuntu 16.04 client apt-get update fails

[Jan Dobes]

On 21.6.2016 06:43 m k wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> We are trying to use Spacewalk 2.4 to manage Ubuntu 16.04 repository &
> update the respective ubuntu clients.
>
> Using the the following blog, we were able to sync the Ubuntu Repository
> to the spacewalk server, Register the Ubuntu
> clients. But, when we try to run the apt-get update on the ubuntu
> client, we get the following error:
>
> http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/gpg-signing-apt-repository-in-spacewalk#comment-28
>
> root at ubuntu:~# apt-get update
> Apt-Spacewalk: Updating sources.list
> Ign:1 spacewalk://X.X.X.X xenial-main InRelease
> Get:2 spacewalk://X.X.X.X xenial-main Release [934 B]
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Problem parsing dependency Breaks
> E: Error occurred while processing kmod (NewVersion2)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/X.X.X.X_dists_xenial-main_repodata_binary-amd64_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
>
>
> Any pointers or help to resolve this would be very much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Murali
>
>

It's because Spacewalk generates incorrect format of repodata and 
apt-get cannot resolve dependencies. We are trying to fix it.

Regards,
-- 
Jan Dobes
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat