[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 0.5, CentOS 5.3, cobbler+kickstart: "Unable to read metadata"

[William Leese]

Hi,

I've setup Spacewalk 0.5 on CentOS 5.3. After having run into several 
bugs and reading the mailinglist, I've stalled on solving the following:

- After a client has updated it's packages, it still reports that it 
requires updates.
I read that this would be solved in a future update to spacewalk-backend 
and spacewalk-java. I have however found no later package than that of 
the 13th of april.


- cobbler+kickstart don't work when installing from bare metal. I've 
setup a channel, a distro using that channel and a kickstart file using 
both. To create the channel I downloaded all the packages from the 
centos base repository. Because this doesn't include the pxe vmlinuz and 
initrd.img files, I copied them from CD and pointed spacewalk to those 
files (when creating the distro? I can't remember).

Anyhow, after the installer boots and anaconda starts, I get the 
following error
"Unable to read metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata 
directory................. can't find repository: anaconda-......."

So I'm missing the repodata directory. That's right, I just downloaded 
the packages. So I createrepo-ed the directory containing the RPMs, but 
to no avail.

Any idea what's going wrong here?

-- 
Regards,

William Leese