[Spacewalk-list] Python 2.6 dependency error on spacewalk 2.8 client install

[Michael Mraka]

David Phillips:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m following the steps here https://github.com/spacewalkpr
> oject/spacewalk/wiki/RegisteringClients to install the spacewalk 2.8 client
> on to a CentOS 7 system I want to manage. I have installed the repo’s:
> 
> # rpm -Uvh https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@spacewalkproject/spacewalk-2.8-client/epel-7-x86_64/00742644-spacewalk-repo/spacewalk-client-repo-2.8-11.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
> 
> # rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
> 
> But when I run
> yum -y install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto
> yum-rhn-plugin
> 
> I get
> Error: Package: python2-rhn-check-2.8.25-1.el6.noarch (spacewalk)
                                             ^^^ 
>            Requires: python(abi) = 2.6
> 
>            Installed: python-2.7.5-58.el7.x86_64 (@base)

Hi David,

You are trying to install CentOS 6 package to your CentOS 7 machine.
Most likely /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo repo points to the wrong place
(older releasever).

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat