[Spacewalk-list] Unable to kickstart via spacewalk proxy

[Michael Guidero]

I'd like to state that my problem is identical.  We can successfully
kickstart the same profile directly from our main Spacewalk server, it is
only the proxy that fails.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Hurrelmann <
patrick.hurrelmann at lobster.de> wrote:

> On 08.12.2014 17:16, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> > did you by any chance include the updates channel during the kickstart?
> > this is known to cause occasional conflicts. if the updates are in the
> > base channel thats fine because it will actually use the repomd file
> > from the installation disk instead of the one in the repo; however if
> > you have additional repos with updates added to the distro it will
> > utilize them and this often creates problems for the kickstart process
> > because anaconda is not as smart as yum about resolving potential
> > conflicts.
> > Your best bet is not to include any updates during the installation
> > then update immediately after the first boot.
> >
> > Also you are better off using the base channel for the packages from
> > the installation disk. you can at your option also include the updates
> > in the base channel but if you do so they will be ignored during the
> > kickstart which is correct behavior.
>
> Yep, that are known issues. At least on 6, 7 works fine with update
> channels. But that's not the issue here. The 6 kickstarts do not contain
> any update channels and the kickstart works fine when performed
> directly. It only fails when kickstarting over proxy. And that is
> reproducible. Trying to reuse the logged GET request for downloading a
> rpm always fails on the proxy and succeeds on spacewalk itself.
>
> Regards
> Patrick
>
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