[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk installation woes

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 01:18:07PM -0700, Chris Stevens wrote:
> I'm following this guide to install a spacewalk server:
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk
> 
> But I am running into a problem at step 5.2.  Instead of getting to a SQL> prompt I am receiving the following error message:

Well, reviewing that page, I can see among others:

	Before configuring the Oracle database, we need to pull
	some packages from the Spacewalk Yum repository. Edit
	/etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo:

	[spacewalk]
	name=Spacewalk for Enterprise Linux - $basearch
	baseurl=http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.0/RHEL/5/$basearch/

So even if you are installing Spacewalk 1.2 (which I assume you do),
if you follow the document on wiki.centos.org you will have packages
from Spacewalk 1.0 installed at this point.

And I really have no idea how it affects the resulting installation.

I'm really not happy about people copying the content from

	https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall

and other referenced pages and then *not* keeping those copies
up-to-date. I stopped reading that CentOS document when I found out
that it's old and not correct. I'd recommend you do the same and just
use the documentation on https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki.

Yours,

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat