[Spacewalk-list] Missing Ubuntu Package properties in Spacewalk

philippe bidault philippe.bidault at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 21:17:05 UTC 2019


And you are right, my mistake, I was checking a previouly generated
Packages.gz. I still need to use your script to have all the headers.

And yes, you are right again, the bug you did create is similar to the
issue I have described. I guess that a workaroud is to replace the
"Depends" header.

Philippe.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 21:17, Robert Paschedag <robert.paschedag at web.de>
wrote:

> Am 20. Januar 2019 20:48:24 MEZ schrieb Robert Paschedag <
> robert.paschedag at web.de>:
> >Am 20. Januar 2019 14:03:03 MEZ schrieb philippe bidault
> ><philippe.bidault at gmail.com>:
> >>Good news, I have upgraded to Spacewalk 2.9, and seems that the
> >headers
> >>issue did definively go away, no need to manually add them.
>
> What?? Now really all headers are added to packages.gz? I do not yet
> believe this. The database schema would have been tuned a lot to support
> all Debian headers.
>
> Can someone else confirm this? I'm currently not that often at the
> customers site to test this.
>
> Robert
>
> >>
> >>However, a new issue did come up. If I add for exemple this repo in
> >SPW
> >>:
> >>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/spacewalk:/2.9:/debclients/xUbuntu_18.04/
> ,
> >>I can notice that the "Depends" header is truncated for some packages
> >>wich
> >>results on a malformed Packages file.
> >>
> >>For exemple, original headers of package rhn-setup-gnome :
> >>
> >>Package: rhn-setup-gnome
> >>Version: 2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1
> >>Architecture: all
> >>Maintainer: Spacewalk Project <spacewalk-devel at redhat.com>
> >>Installed-Size: 339*Depends: rhn-client-tools (=
> >>2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1),python2-rhn-setup (=
> >>2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1),python2-rhn-setup-gnome (=
> >>2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1),rhn-setup (=
>
> >>2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1),libpam0g,libpam-modules,libpam-runtime,libpam-gnome-keyring*
> >>
> >>"Depends" header apparearing in the Package file generated by
> >>Spacewalk:
> >>
> >>Package: rhn-setup-gnome
> >>Version: 2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1
> >>Architecture: all
> >>Maintainer: Spacewalk Project <spacewalk-devel at redhat.com>
> >>Installed-Size: 339
> >>*Depends: rhn-client-tools  (=
> >>2.9.36-1.ubuntu18.04.1),python2-rhn-setup )*
> >>
> >>Result of this is the following error on the clients registered
> >against
> >>this channel :
> >>
> >>E: Problem parsing dependency 21
> >>E: Error occurred while processing rhn-setup-gnome (NewVersion2)
> >>E: Problem with MergeList
>
> >>/var/lib/apt/lists/space01-fr_dists_bionic-spacewalk29-client_repodata_binary-amd64_Packages
> >>E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> >>
> >>which is due to the malformed/incomplet "Depends" header.
> >>
> >>Will try to dig, but if somebody did have this same issue or more
> >>information, please let me know.
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Philippe.
> >
> >Sounds like this , didn't it?
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658772
> >
> >Robert
> >>
> >>On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 02:12, Paul-Andre Panon <
> >>paul-andre.panon at avigilon.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:47:25 +0100, philippe bidault
> >>> <philippe.bidault at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >Hi Paul-Andre,
> >>>
> >>> >Robert did send me some weeks ago a new script which fetch all the
> >>> missing
> >>> >headers. I am using it, and for the moment, seems to correctly work
> >>:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2018-December/msg00015.htm
> >>> l
> >>>
> >>> >Regards,
> >>> >Philippe.
> >>>
> >>> Ah, merci Phillipe and thanks Robert! That should do it going
> >>forward.
> >>>
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