[Spacewalk-list] Error displaying package details

[Sajesh Singh]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tomas Lestach
> Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 4:53 AM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Error displaying package details
> 
> > If I remember correctly we started with version 1.0 and did upgrades
> > to 1.2 -> 1.4 -> 1.7 and now 2.0
> >
> > # rhn-schema-version:
> > 2.0.2-1.el5
> >
> > # rpm -q spacewalk-schema spacewalk-java
> > spacewalk-schema-2.0.2-1.el5
> > spacewalk-java-2.0.5-1.el5
> >
> > You are correct a clean install would be the way to go. Is there a way
> > to save my data from this install and then import into another install
> > even if there may be missing data in some columns of the database?
> 
> As you write, the trouble is there're some data missing, so it isn't very wise to
> import that data to another Spacewalk instance.
> What you definitely could do is to backup and re-use the /var/satellite
> directory that contains (among others) all the rpms you used on the current
> Spacewalk, so you do not have to sync/download them again.
> As well you may try to get some of the data (activation keys, configuration
> channels and files, users and user groups ...) via API and create them again
> via API on the new Spacewalk machine.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Tomas Lestach
> Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
> 
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Tom,
 Thank you for the advice. 

-Sajesh-