[Spacewalk-list] Groupinstall???

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:16:11AM +0200, andre at vandervlies.xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
> Doesn't 'groupinstall' work in/with spacewalk???
> In /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo I got:
> 
>   # CentOS-Base.repo
>   #
>   [base]
>   name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
>   mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/
>            ?release=$releaseverarch=$basearch&repo=os
>   #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
>   gpgcheck=1
>   enabled=0
>   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
> 
> I issue a 'yum groupinstall "Development Tools"' and get:
>   Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   Setting up Group Process
>   Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>   Warning: Group Development Tools does not exist.
>   No packages in any requested group available to install or update
> 
> I change "enabled=0" in "enabled=1", issue the command again:
>   yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
>   Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
>   Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>    * base: mirror.leaseweb.com
>   base                                                   | 2.1 kB     00:00
>   Setting up Group Process
>   Checking for new repos for mirrors
>   Package 1:make-3.81-3.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
>   Package 1:pkgconfig-0.21-2.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
>   Package gettext-0.14.6-4.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
>   Package binutils-2.17.50.0.6-12.el5.i386 already installed and latest
>     version
>   Package python-ldap-2.2.0-2.1.i386 already installed and latest version
>   Resolving Dependencies
> 
> Obviously I'm missing or do not understand something. What?

If you do not have the repo enabled, you don't see any packages
processed. If you have it enabled, yum tries to install some packages
from the group but finds out that some are already installed.

What exactly do you see are problem? 

What role does Spacewalk play here?

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat