[Spacewalk-list] Installed CentOS 7 - Yum Repos Not Correct

Scott Worthington scott.c.worthington at gmail.com
Tue Jul 28 18:54:52 UTC 2015


On 7/28/2015 2:08 PM, Speagle, Andy wrote:
> 
> This is definitely not my first rodeo with Spacewalk.  However, it is with CentOS 7 installs.
>  
> 
> Sure, that's helpful... but I found the real problem.  The issue was with the rhnlib package that is forcibly pulled in and installed as a part of the internals of the kickstart process as part of spacewalk.  I created a "spacewalk tools" child channel for my CentOS 7 base channel, built from the latest (2.3) RHEL 7 client packages from the spacewalk site:
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> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/latest-client/RHEL/7/x86_64/
> 
> So.. this causes the kickstart to pull in this rhnlib package:
> 
> rhnlib-2.5.75-1.el7.noarch.rpm
> 
> The version of the package included with CentOS 7 is:
> 
> rhnlib-2.5.65-2.el7.noarch.rpm
> 
> As part of the kickstart process, registration is done via the "rhnreg_ks" utility... which is included in the rhn-setup package, which is this version in the CentOS 7 channel:
> 
> rhn-setup-2.0.2-6.el7.noarch.rpm
> 
> However, that updated rhnlib packages includes a connections.py that no longer implements the "idn_ascii_to_pune" function that the old rhnreg_ks eventually needs... it instead implements the newer "idn_ascii_to_puny" function... which is used by the updated rhnreg_ks included in the updated rhn-setup from the spacewalk client child channel:
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> rhn-setup-2.3.16-1.el7.noarch.rpm
> 
> So... in order to make all of that work, I had to implement a new post script that grabbed the rhn-setup package and dependencies before the built-in registration happens... which I pretty much just plagiarized from the built-in registration function's work:
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> mkdir -p /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional
> cd /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional 
> wget -P /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional http://spacewalk.wichita.edu/download/package/fcb44ada56d57e6fc033f7e19262952b4acee26f/1438140090557/1/194028/rhn-client-tools-2.3.16-1.el7.noarch.rpm http://spacewalk.wichita.edu/download/package/858a8a53048464399ab3b3468d8e4591be728aab/1438140073338/1/194025/rhn-setup-2.3.16-1.el7.noarch.rpm http://spacewalk.wichita.edu/download/package/dced25a61ed01c6df170f7c74e4302ffa4445f9f/1438140105463/1/194019/rhn-check-2.3.16-1.el7.noarch.rpm
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> rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles /tmp/rhn_rpms/optional/rhn*
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> Seems to me that this needs to be resolved in the workings of the built-in registration script ... unless I'm missing something else.
> 
> Andy

This smells like something should be submitted to bugzilla.




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