[Spacewalk-list] Repo woes

[Michael Mraka]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
% Thanks for the reply, Paul.
% 
% Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case for me.  If 
% I run the sync from the command line, it completes in 
% seconds with the X86_64 error message (syncing from the GUI 
% also doesn't work, obviously).  Also, in the "Full Software 
% Channel List", while other channels show the number of 
% packages acquired during the sync, the Samba channel shows 
% a zero.    It seems I've tried every combination of entry 
% when creating the channel/repo, and it errors, one way or 
% the other.  What really ticks me off is that I once had the 
% channel working.  I just don't remember how.  Arrrrgh!

This repo contains both for x86_64 abd i386 packages.
So you have to sync it into x86_64 channel.
Then you can clone that x86_64 channel as an i386 channel (which will be
child of your el5 base channel) and it will clone i386 packages only.

...
% >  > > > >> However, I'm having a problem getting on
% >  > > > >> recreated cahnnel/repo working.  Many of our
% >  > > > >> Linux boxes use Samba; the packages come from
% >  > > > >> Sernet.  I created the channel and repo for my
% >  > > > >> CentOS 5 systems, but the repo won't sync. When
% >  > > > >> I try to sync from the command line, here's the
% >  > > > >> output I get:
% >  > > > >>
% >  > > > >> spacewalk-repo-sync --channel sernet-samba-el5
% >  > > > >> --type yum Repo URL:
% >  > > > >> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5
% >  > > > >> Packages in repo:                22
% >  > > > >> Packages already synced:          0
% >  > > > >> Packages to sync:                22
% >  > > > >> 1/22 : samba3-utils-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
% >  > > > >> 2/22 : samba3-winbind-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
% >  > > > >> 3/22 :
% >  > > > >> libsmbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 4/22
% >  > > > >> : libwbclient0-32bit-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 5/22
% >  > > > >> : libwbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 6/22
% >  > > > >> : samba3-doc-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 7/22 :
% >  > > > >> libwbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64 8/22 :
% >  > > > >> samba3-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
% >  > > > >> 9/22 : samba3-debuginfo-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
% >  > > > >> 10/22 : samba3-client-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
% >  > > > >> 11/22 : libsmbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.x86_64
% >  > > > >> 12/22 :
% >  > > > >> samba3-winbind-32bit-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 13/22
% >  > > > >> : samba3-winbind-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 14/22 :
% >  > > > >> libwbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386 15/22 :
% >  > > > >> samba3-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 16/22 : samba3-client-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 17/22 : samba3-debuginfo-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 18/22 : libsmbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 19/22 : samba3-doc-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 20/22 : libsmbclient0-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 21/22 : samba3-utils-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> 22/22 : libwbclient-devel-3.6.17-45.el5-0.i386
% >  > > > >> Linking packages to channel.
% >  > > > >> ERROR: Package arch x86_64 incompatible with
% >  > > > >> channel sernet-samba-el5
% >  > > > >> Sync completed.
% >  > > > >> Total time: 0:00:06
% >  > > > >>
% >  > > > >> The machines to be updated are 32-bit.  I chose
% >  > > > >> IA-32 as the Architecture, and the repo url is
% >  > > > >> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5.  If
% >  > > > >> I make it
% >  > > > >> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5/i386,
% >  > > > >> I get "ERROR: Cannot retrieve repository
% >  > > > >> metadata (repomd.xml) for repostory:
% >  > > > >> sernet-samba-el5. Please verify its path and
% >  > > > >> try again.
% >  > > > >>
% >  > > > >> What's frustrating is that I did have this
% >  > > > >> working before. Any help would be greatly
% >  > > > >> appreciated.
% >  > > > >>
% >  > > > >> Dimitri

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat