[Spacewalk-list] Question on dependancies management when upgrading packages

[Pierre Casenove]

Thanks, I'll try this.

2011/9/7 John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Pierre Casenove wrote:
>
>  I have a question about the dependancy management when we upgrade client
>> packages from spacewalk: are the dependancies automatically installed or
>> not?
>>
>
> Yes.  Your install request just maps to a yum command as far as I'm aware.
>
>
>  Same question when installing package.  I've registered a rhel 5.4 client
>> in
>> spacewalk server with a base channel containing rhel 5.6 packages.  When I
>> launched the upgrade of all the packages, the task failed with error
>> "missing dependancy python-libs for python". I've installed pyhon-libs,
>> relaunched the upgrade, it was successful. Python-libs was of course
>> available in the base channel.  Is there a configuration error on my set
>> up?
>>
>
> You'd want a proper trace of what it was trying to do.  I'd guess rhn_check
> -vvvvv would give you what you needed.
>
> jh
>
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