[Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu/Deb Support

Wed Sep 26 13:16:06 UTC 2018

I'm having no luck getting my xenial clients to recognize the Release & Release.gpg files in my repos. I resorted to modifying the pre-invoke.py script to write [trusted=yes] for each line in spacewalk.list, now I'm no longer getting complaints about missing Release files when I do an apt update. I am still unable to upgrade any packages though:

# rhn_check -vvvv
D: check_action{'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>packages.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>bind9-host</string></value>\n<value><string>9.10.3.dfsg.P4</string></value>\n<value><string>8ubuntu1.11</string></value>\n<value><string>1</string></value>\n<value><string>amd64-deb</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 26}
updateLoginInfo() login info
D: login(forceUpdate=True) invoked
logging into up2date server
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC up2date.login
D: writeCachedLogin() invoked
D: Wrote pickled loginInfo at 1537966985.67 with expiration of 1537970585.67 seconds.
successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server
D: logininfo:{'X-RHN-Server-Id': 1000010000, 'X-RHN-Auth-Server-Time': '1537966985.69', 'X-RHN-Auth': '8okffYSJDt+fznMR/PhU4rZCo31NCg9sFe84Gx6oRVo=', 'X-RHN-Auth-Channels': [['xenial-main', '20180925171652', '1', '1'], ['xenial-security', '20180925175349', '0', '1'], ['xenial-updates', '20180925172643', '0', '1']], 'X-RHN-Auth-User-Id': '', 'X-RHN-Auth-Expire-Offset': '3600.0'}
D: handle_action{'action': "<?xml version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>packages.update</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>bind9-host</string></value>\n<value><string>9.10.3.dfsg.P4</string></value>\n<value><string>8ubuntu1.11</string></value>\n<value><string>1</string></value>\n<value><string>amd64-deb</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n", 'version': 2, 'id': 26}
D: handle_action actionid = 26, version = 2
D: do_call packages.update([['bind9-host', '9.10.3.dfsg.P4', '8ubuntu1.11', '1', 'amd64-deb']],){'cache_only': None}
D: Called update[['bind9-host', '9.10.3.dfsg.P4', '8ubuntu1.11', '1', 'amd64-deb']]
Apt-Spacewalk: Updating sources.list
D: Sending back response(1, 'update failed', {})
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate('rhnsd=1',){}
D: Called refresh_list
Updating package profile
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.update_packages
D: local action status: (0, 'package list refreshed', {})
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message

Does anyone have any ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de> 
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 2:28 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com; Randall R. Sargent <rrsargent at pilotcat.com>; spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu/Deb Support

Am 24. September 2018 21:07:58 MESZ schrieb "Randall R. Sargent" <rrsargent at pilotcat.com>:
>Thanks much for this. I’m not seeing any difference in the behavior of 
>my 16.04 clients. They are able to register, but doing a package update 
>fails (any package):
>
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>

I'm pretty sure, you are not using signs repos.

Newer "apt", especially the python "apt" module fails while checking the signatures of the repo, thus the "update" fails.

Note: it is the update ("apt-get update") within the call to install the package that fails.

I also had this error with Debian 9, because I did not yet "sign" my repos and used "Allow unsigned = true" within apt.conf.

But these settings seem to be ignored, hence, the "apt" python module "requires" the repos to be signed. It took me a while to debug this.

In case you "are" using signs repos, you should provide some more info...e.g. "rhn_check -vvvv" while trying to install a package via SW.

Robert

>From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com 
><spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> On Behalf Of Neal Gompa
>Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 12:49 PM
>To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Ubuntu/Deb Support
>
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:59 AM Randall R. Sargent 
><rrsargent at pilotcat.com<mailto:rrsargent at pilotcat.com>> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>*Newbie* to Spacewalk here. At the risk of beating a dead horse, has 
>anyone been able to successfully manage Ubuntu clients on 2.8? We have
>14.04 & 16.04 clients and it would make my life so much easier if I 
>could get them to reliably work. I have been able to get 14.04 to 
>register, and even update (with minor issues), but not 16.x.
>Documentation is spotty out there in Google-land.
>
>Any help is appreciated!
>
>
>Hey, yeah, it's possible to successfully manage Ubuntu clients with 
>Spacewalk 2.8.
>
>A couple of months ago, my colleague and I fixed the clients to work in 
>Spacewalk git master (upcoming Spacewalk 2.9), and we backported this 
>to the 2.8 clients.
>
>The sources are here:
>https://gitlab.com/datto/engineering/spacewalk-debian-client-packages
>
>We also built the packages and published them on OBS. You can use them 
>by doing the following:
>
># If you have older clients from Debian/Ubuntu repos $ sudo apt purge 
>apt-transport-spacewalk rhnsd $ sudo apt autoremove # Installing the 
>new packages $ sudo bash -c 'echo "deb 
>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:
>/2.8:/debclients/xUbuntu_16.04/ /" > 
>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/spacewalk2.8-debclients.list'
>$ sudo apt-key adv --fetch-keys
>http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:
>/2.8:/debclients/xUbuntu_16.04/Release.key
>$ sudo apt-get update
>$ sudo apt install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd 
>apt-transport-spacewalk rhncfg rhncfg-actions
>
>There are builds for xUbuntu 16.04 and 18.04, as well as Debian 8.0 and 
>9.0. Just swap "xUbuntu_16.04" in the instructions above for 
>"xUbuntu_18.04" or "Debian_8.0" or "Debian_9.0".
>
>Future development of the clients are going into Spacewalk's next 
>release.
>
>
>
>--
>真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!

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