[Spacewalk-list] Status of Solaris support

Michael Mraka michael.mraka at redhat.com
Tue Jul 10 11:16:34 UTC 2012


Pierre Casenove wrote:
% I've tested to deploy the pushed patch cluster... and it failed:
% In Spacewalk, I have this error message in the failed actions page:
% Patch cluster install failed: Bad magic number for central directory
% 
% I've rhn_check manually from my client and here is the output:
% D: do_call solarispkgs.patchClusterInstall
% ([[['patch-cluster-solaris-', '20120412', '1',
% 'sparc-solaris-patch-cluster', 'solaris-10-sparc-patches'], {}]],)
% Installing patch cluster:  [[['patch-cluster-solaris-', '20120412',
% '1', 'sparc-solaris-patch-cluster', 'solaris-10-sparc-patches'], {}]]
% Loading cache...
% Updating cache...
% #####################################################################
% [100%]
% Updating cache...
% #####################################################################
% [100%]
% Updating cache...
% #####################################################################
% [100%]
% 
% Computing transaction...
% Committing transaction...
% D: Sending back response (102, 'Patch cluster install failed: Bad
% magic number for central directory', {'version': 0, 'name':
% 'solarispkgs.patchClusterInstall'})
...
% Here is my guess, but with no proof:
% After rhnpushing the mpm files, Spacewalk rebuild the
% 10_recommended.zip file alone. As I'm on RHEL 5, python 2.4 is used to
% build the 10_recommended.zip file... which requires ZIP64 extensions.
% And so it fails.

No, pushed package is not rebuilt, just stored.

% Any help would be really apprecciated

Is your solaris system able to unzip patch cluster?
Most likely you need newer zip installed on it.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat




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