[Spacewalk-list] Problem Spacewalking CentOS 7 - repo groups and treeinfo not found

[Dan MacDonald]

Nobody?

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Dan MacDonald <allcoms at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are running spacewalk 2.3 under CentOS 6. It has been happily deploying
> CentOS 6 installs for a while but now we'd like to start rolling out CentOS
> 7. So far, using a vanilla KS file as generated by SW, installation only
> gets as far as completing the partitioning before we get the error:
>
> "You have specified the group 'Base' should be installed. This group does
> not exist. Would you like to ignore this group and continue with
> installation?"
>
> packaging.log contains a number of errors saying that it failed to get the
> groups for my C7 repos as well as a bunch of 404 errors for downloading the
> treeinfo for the repos.
>
> Has anyone else got stuck at this point with C7 under SW 2.3? If so, how
> did you overcome it? I'm presuming C7 should deploy fine under CW 2.3 or
> were there some C7-related issues that got fixed in 2.4 or 2.5?
>
> My guess would be that the repo paths in the KS file are incorrect but
> they look almost identical to the paths that work fine for us with CentOS
> 6. I know the base of cobbler's web dir is /var/www/cobbler but does SW or
> one of its components have any other dirs that it shares out by default and
> how are they referenced by SW/cobbler? Working out the correct paths for
> the repos is tricky when you don't know this and the sites are browsable.
>
> I have tried using a yum repo fix snippet that claims to stop yum using
> external repos but that didn't make any difference.
>
> In trying to troubleshoot this I discovered there are at least 3 different
> ways to sync your SW repos. I used spacewalk-repo-sync with the
> --sync-kickstart switch but apparently you can do the same with rhnpush and
> spacewalk-common-channels? Which is the recommended way?
>
> Those are my main questions right now but I'm certain there is more I've
> forgot to mention.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
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