[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.4 64 bit and spacewalk client tools

[Franz Skale]

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Files are owned by the yum package with also consists of the
yum-rhn-plugin package.
It has to be rebuild manually.
Since there are new libs etc. the yum-rhn-plugin package has to be
ported to the new rpm/yum version.

Franz Flaherty, Patrick schrieb:
>> We're installing the spacewalk client tools on a new CentOS 5.4
>> 64 bit machine but got the following error:
>>
>> # yum install yum-rhn-plugin Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Setting up Install
>> Process No package cat available. No package /etc/issue
>> available. Resolving Dependencies - --> Running transaction check
>>  - ---> Package yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:0.5.3-6.el5.6 set to be
>> updated - --> Processing Dependency: rhn-client-tools >= 0.2.3
>> for package: yum-rhn-plugin - --> Processing Dependency:
>> rhn-setup for package: yum-rhn-plugin - --> Running transaction
>> check - ---> Package rhn-client-tools.noarch 0:0.4.17-8.el5 set
>> to be updated - --> Processing Dependency: rhnlib >= 2.1 for
>> package: rhn-client-tools - ---> Package rhn-setup.noarch
>> 0:0.4.17-8.el5 set to be updated - --> Processing Dependency:
>> rhnsd for package: rhn-setup - --> Running transaction check -
>> ---> Package rhnlib.noarch 0:2.2.5-1.el5 set to be updated - --->
>> Package rhnsd.x86_64 0:4.6.1-1.el5 set to be updated - -->
>> Processing Dependency: rhn-check >= 0.0.8 for package: rhnsd -
>> --> Running transaction check - ---> Package rhn-check.noarch
>> 0:0.4.17-8.el5 set to be updated - --> Processing Conflict: yum
>> conflicts yum-rhn-plugin < 0.5.3-30.el5 - --> Finished Dependency
>> Resolution yum-3.2.22-20.el5.centos.noarch from installed has
>> depsolving problems --> yum conflicts with yum-rhn-plugin Error:
>> yum conflicts with yum-rhn-plugin  You could try using
>> --skip-broken to work around the problem  You could try running:
>> package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va
>> --nofiles --nodigest The program package-cleanup is found in the
>> yum-utils package.
>>
>>
>> It seems that the recent yum in CentOS 5.4 64 bit is not
>> cooperating/willing to work with the yum-rhn-plugin provided by
>> the Spacewalk team.
>>
>> How can we solve this dependency problem?
>
> I'm seeing the same issue on 32 and 64 bit CentOS boxes when I try
> to upgrade them from 5.3 to 5.4. The client tools repositories on
> the listed on the setup page for centos5 haven't been updated since
> 2008. The instructions for fedora point at
> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.5 or
> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/0.6/. Perhaps those packages will
> work? I'll likely try them tomorrow if I have enough time.
>
> Patrick
>
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