[Spacewalk-list] Problem kickstarting using a Software Package Profile

[Jon Miller]

I have been developing a CentOS 6 profile lately and toying between
managing the versioning of the builds with either cloned channels or
captured Package Profiles.

Here is my test scenario for the later approach:
- Created a clean Software Profile via
  a. Kickstart a fresh machine.
  b. Issue a single "yum -y update"
  c. Create a Package Profile entitled "CentOS 6.2 - Updated"
  d. Cloned kickstart profile "centos6-base" -> "centos6-base-updated"
  e. Updated the "centos6-base-updated" profile's software tab to use the
package profile
- Now testing a fresh kickstart
  + Broke out of the default PXE menu entry
  + Updated the ks= line to reference my cloned kickstart profile
- Result
  + Viewing the Events History of the new machine shows a failed "Package
    Synchronization scheduled by (none)"
  + Looking at the error message in detail I see:
    #+begin_example
Client execution returned "Failed: packages requested raised dependency
problems: [u'Protected multilib versions: nspr-4.8.9-3.el6_2.x86_64 !=
nspr-4.9.2-1.el6.x86_64', u'Protected multilib versions:
nss-3.14.0.0-12.el6.x86_64 != nss-3.13.1-7.el6_2.i686', u'Protected
multilib versions: nss-3.14.0.0-12.el6.x86_64 !=
nss-3.13.1-7.el6_2.x86_64', u'Protected multilib versions:
nss-util-3.13.1-3.el6_2.i686 != nss-util-3.14.0.0-2.el6.x86_64',
u'Protected multilib versions: libffi-3.0.5-3.2.el6.i686 !=
libffi-3.0.10-2.el6.x86_64']" (code 18)
    #+end_example

The list of failed packages is exactly the number of packages I would get
installed if I did a "yum update" on the machine right now.

Any ideas as to what is wrong here? I'd also take advice on whether or not
you think this approach is a sane one or not.

Thanks,
Jon Miller
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