[Spacewalk-list] 1.6 to 1.7 upgrade bug 869985 reappeared?

[Milan Zazrivec]

> If I understand you correct you are saying I can upgrade from 1.6 directly
> to 1.8? I thought it was required to do a step by step upgrade. My
> objective is to get all the way to 2.0.

Yes, you can upgrade directly from 1.6 to 2.0. There's no need to do
the particular steps. If you encounter any problems during the upgrade,
feel free to ask here, I'll try to help if I can.

-MZ

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> on behalf of Milan Zazrivec [mzazrivec at redhat.com] Sent: Monday, August
> 12, 2013 9:56 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 1.6 to 1.7 upgrade bug 869985 reappeared?
> 
> > I am attempting to upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 and have encountered the
> > following:
> > 
> > 'SPACEWALK-SCHEMA-1.6-TO-SPACEWALK-SCHEMA-1.7/007-RHNPACKAGEGROUP-TRIM.SQ
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > spacewalk-schema-1.6-to-spacewalk-schema-1.7/007-rhnPackageGroup-trim.sql
> > 
> > 
> > 77722 rows updated.
> > 
> > update rhnpackagegroup set name = substr(name, 1, length(name)-1)
> > *
> > ERROR at line 1:
> > ORA-00001: unique constraint (SPACEWALK.RHN_PACKAGE_GROUP_NAME_UQ)
> > violated
> > 
> > 
> > This appears to be a bug listed as fixed.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869985
> > 
> > Presuming it is the same issue clearly its not fixed or the repo has
> > somehow reverted back which seems very unlikely. I am using
> > spacewalk-repo-1.7-5.el5 pulled from
> > http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/1.7/RHEL/5/x86_64/. Following the
> > directions at https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade17.
> 
> Yes, this bug was fixed for Spacewalk 1.8, i.e. you would not hit this
> problem when upgrading from any version to Spacewalk 1.8. The problem
> has not been backported to Spacewalk 1.7 packages, i.e. you either
> can upgrade to something later or apply that fix manually.
> 
> -Milan Zázrivec
> 
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