[Spacewalk-list] CENTOS packages being linked to RHEL channels

[Justin Sherrill]

On 3/17/10 7:30 PM, Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta) wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello all...
> 
> 
> I am having an issue where it seems packages from centos and rhel are
> getting intermingled.
> 
> Packages from centos are being linked to rhel channels if they have the
> same name/version.
> The only difference is the checksum, which is how I thought it
> determined the difference between the packages.
> 
> For example:
> CENTOS:  openssh-clients-4.3p2-36.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm   (MD5: 
> 323bcbc172aaa184be6a09b74fbbf2f8)
> RHEL:   openssh-clients-4.3p2-36.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm    (MD5:  
> 700204790cd941717e071ac5471a5fd2)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Here how this is happening...
> 
> 1. sync centos repo to centos channels
> 2. sync rhel packages to rhel channels
> 
> During the RHEL rhnpush, since it sees the package name version in
> spacewalk already, it adds/links the existing centos package to the rhel
> channel.
> It should be looking at the md5sum and seeing that they are different.
> 
> 
> So once this happens, if I do an rhnpush of the RHEL version of
> openssh-clients-4.3p2-36.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm to the rhel channel, the
> package gets orphaned immediately.


This should have been fixed in 0.7 I believe.


> 
> 
> I know there are others who have CENTOS and RHEL on spacewalk.
> Is anyone else having this issue, or am I missing something?
> Using v0.6
> 
> Thanks
> -Josh
> 
> 
> 
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