[Spacewalk-list] Debian Lenny support

[Simon Lukasik]

On 05/11/2011 10:24 AM, David Hrbáč wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to ask about the Lenny support. We are just investigating the
> deb support in Spacewalk. I'm quite surprised that Lenny is not supported:
Hello David,

With Debian Lenny, please note that it distributes python-apt_0.7.7.1
[1]. While the apt-spacewalk and the rhn-client-tools require at least
python-apt_0.7.100.

> simon-test:~# apt-get install apt-spacewalk rhnsd rhnpush -Vu
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> apt-spacewalk is already the newest version.
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   apt-spacewalk: Depends: python-support (>= 0.90.0) but 0.8.4lenny2 is
> to be installed
>                  Depends: python-rhn-client-tools but it is not going to
> be installed
>   rhnpush: Depends: rhnlib
>            Depends: python-rpm but it is not going to be installed
>   rhnsd: Depends: rhn-client-tools
>          Depends: chkconfig but it is not going to be installed
>          Depends: rhn-functions but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> 
> Are there any reasons for python-support >= 0.90.0?
> Thanks,
> DH
> 

Honestly, I don't know the reasons for this particular requirement.

I think, the requirement was substituted from ${python:Depends} macro in
the build time. The packages was build and tested on the Squeeze.

You might want to either enable unstable/testing or rebuild the packages
on the Lenny.

-- 
Simon Lukasik

[1]: http://packages.debian.org/cs/lenny/python-apt