[Spacewalk-list] Support for Fedora 18 clients using Spacewalk 1.8?

[Jon Miller]

Okay, next test... trying to simplify my question / issue by taking
kickstart out of the equation. I believe the real question is why are the
packages I uploaded via "rhnpush" not available to my client? This time
around, I kickstarted a machine and it was setup with the normal Fedora
repos available and I installed rhnlib & spacewalk-koan, registered the
client to my Spacewalk server so that I would also have it as a repo, then
disabled the Fedora repos, erased rhnlib & spacewalk-koan and finally
testing that I can not find those packages on my Spacewalk server from a
client perspective. Here is the puzzling part: If I go to my FC18 channel
in the UI, click on packages and then search for spacewalk I find the
spacewalk-koan package. I can even click the download from the UI.

So, the real question is how can I upload a package via rhnpush, see it
available within the UI but client not see it as being available?
My rhnpush command: rhnpush -u "${SPACEWALK_USER}" -p "${SPACEWALK_PASS}"
-v --channel=$CHANNEL --server=http://localhost --dir=$dir

Thanks,
Jon Miller

P.S. My procedure to help isolate the client using only the spacewalk repo:
$ yum repolist
repo id                              repo name
      status
fedora/18/x86_64                     Fedora 18 - x86_64
     33,868
updates/18/x86_64                    Fedora 18 - x86_64 - Updates
      9,074
repolist: 42,942
repolist: 47,120
$ yum -y install rhnlib spacewalk-koan
$ rhnreg_ks --activationkey=2-espresso-test --username admin --password
mypass --serverUrl http://spacewalk.example.com/XMLRPC
$ yum repolist
repo id                              repo name
      status
fedora/18/x86_64                     Fedora 18 - x86_64
     33,868
fedora18-x86_64                      Fedora 18 Core x86_64
       4,178
updates/18/x86_64                    Fedora 18 - x86_64 - Updates
      9,074
$ sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*repo
$ yum repolist
repo id                              repo name
      status
fedora18-x86_64                      Fedora 18 Core x86_64
       4,178
repolist: 4,178
$ yum -y erase rhnlib spacewalk-koan
$ yum search rhnlib spacewalk-koan
Warning: No matches found for: rhnlib
Warning: No matches found for: spacewalk-koan
No Matches found



On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm hoping by attaching some extra KS logs, captured during a kickstart,
> that someone would be able to notice something about not being able to use
> the "rhnlib" and "spacewalk-koan" RPMs.
>
> Any ideas or suggests are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon Miller
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Of the required client packages, "pyOpenSSL" and "libxml2-python" were
>> available from the base set of packages on the 4G DVD where as "rhnlib" and
>> "spacewalk-koan" were not. I'm able to kickstart a FC18 client but it is
>> obviously not registering with Spacewalk automatically. I then used the yum
>> command "yum install --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp rhnlib
>> spacewalk-koan" to get a local copy of the missing RPMs along with their
>> dependencies. Finally, I re-used the rhnpush command to upload an extra 28
>> packages into my FC18 channel and while I can confirm they are there via
>> the Spacealk UI, re-kickstarting still complains about missing the same two
>> packages.
>>
>> Is there some sort of sync, cache flush or the like that I need to
>> perform before a new kickstart can see that those packages are now
>> available for installation?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon Miller
>>
>> #------ More Details about what I did to resolve my dependencies --------
>> # From the freshly installed FC18 client
>> mkdir /tmp/rmps && yum install -y --downloadonly --downloaddir=/tmp/rmps
>> rhnlib spacewalk-koan
>> # Then from your Spacewalk server, scp those RPMs to your current
>> directory:
>> CHANNEL=fedora18-x86_64 # Your channel probably varies from mine
>> read -p "What is your spacewalk user name: " -e -i "admin-crad"
>> SPACEWALK_USER
>> read -p "What is your spacewalk ${SPACEWALK_USER} password: " -s -e
>> SPACEWALK_PASS
>> rhnpush -u "${SPACEWALK_USER}" -p "${SPACEWALK_PASS}" -v
>> --channel=$CHANNEL --server=http://localhost --dir=.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:32:21AM +0100, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
>>> > On 19.1.2013 03:28, Jon Miller wrote:
>>> > >I tried looking for available client download URLs but was
>>> unsuccessful.
>>> > >What is the current timeline for making those packages available?
>>> >
>>> > Spacewalk client is already part of Fedora. So it is already
>>> > available there (and also in rawhide).
>>> > Just do:
>>> >   yum groupinstall 'Spacewalk Client'
>>>
>>> Nightly client repos are now available for Fedora 18 as well:
>>>
>>>         http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/nightly-client/Fedora/18/
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jan Pazdziora
>>> Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>>>
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>>
>>
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