[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.9 on RHEL6, breaks rhn:// repos

[Jan Hutař]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:09:47 +0200 "Jens Neu"
<jens.neu at biotronik.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm considering to run my spacewalk (currently on Centos 5) on
> a RHEL6 host with active subscription instead of migrating to
> Centos 6. Gave it a try today, just to find out that as soon
> as the spacewalk repo is added, rhn-client-tools are
> (obviously) upgraded to the spacewalk- provided 1.9.x packages.
> 
> As soon as these are upgraded, the yum rhn plugin stops
> working and gives me
> 
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository
> 
> on all rhn:// repos. 
> 
> I followed the ordinary 
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToInstall19
> Update that breaks it is:
> 
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package rhn-check.noarch 0:1.0.0.1-4.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package rhn-check.noarch 0:1.9.10-1.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package rhn-client-tools.noarch 0:1.0.0.1-4.el6 will be
> updated
> ---> Package rhn-client-tools.noarch 0:1.9.10-1.el6 will be an
> update
> --> Processing Dependency: python-hwdata for package: 
> rhn-client-tools-1.9.10-1.el6.noarch
> ---> Package rhn-setup.noarch 0:1.0.0.1-4.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package rhn-setup.noarch 0:1.9.10-1.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package rhnlib.noarch 0:2.5.22-12.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package rhnlib.noarch 0:2.5.55-1.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:0.9.1-43.el6 will be
> updated
> ---> Package yum-rhn-plugin.noarch 0:1.9.4-1.el6 will be an
> update
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package python-hwdata.noarch 0:1.7.3-1.el6 will be
> installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> What am I missing here?

Hello.

So you have RHEL6 with client packages
(rhn-client-tools/rhnlib/yum-rhn-plugin) and you are not able to
get repodata for rhn.redhat.com channels now? Could you please
show what you see?

Regards,
Jan



-- 
Jan Hutar     Systems Management QA
jhutar at redhat.com     Red Hat, Inc.
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