[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.10 Failing to sync repo

[Michael Mraka]

Jody McIvor:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I ran your suggested command to peek at the header info of one of (most recent) the RPMs:
> ====================================================
> [jmcivor@<MYREPOSERVER>]$ rpm -qip <PACKAGENAME>.rpm
> Name        : <PACKAGENAME>-v2.15.01
...
> 
> And ran manual repo sync:
> ====================================================
> [root@<SPACEWALKSERVER>]# spacewalk-repo-sync --channel <CHANNELNAME> --type yum
> 08:42:02 ======================================
> 08:42:02 | Channel: <CHANNELNAME>
> 08:42:02 ======================================
> 08:42:02 Sync of channel started.
> 08:42:02
> 08:42:02   Processing repository with URL: http://<REPOSERVER>/rhel/x86_64/<CHANNELNAME> /
> 08:42:03     Packages in repo:               111
> 08:42:03     Packages already synced:         65
> 08:42:03     Packages to sync:                14
> 08:42:03     New packages to download:        14
> 08:42:03   Downloading packages:
> 08:42:03     1/14 : <PACKAGENAME>.rpm
...
> As usual, it reports completion, but digging into the actual log for this channels reposync (var/log/rhn/reposync/<CHANNELNAME>.log) gives us the details I provided previously:
> ====================================================
...
> 2020/02/14 08:48:10 -07:00   Importing packages to DB:
> 2020/02/14 08:48:10 -07:00 unknown header tag
> 2020/02/14 08:48:11 -07:00 unknown header tag

Hello,

I've never seen similar issue. I just guess the rpm package contains
a header which is not known by rpm library on the server.
I'm afraid there's no other way then debug spacewalk-repo-sync.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
System Management Engineering, Red Hat