[Spacewalk-list] Parent/Child channels and software availability?

[Lachlan Musicman]

It's true, although other documentation clearly states "remove the rpms
once the tree has has the ISO added".



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On 4 April 2016 at 13:00, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:

> It's only something I worked out recently while working with CentOS as a
> kickstart distro for the first time.
>
> Note that our (Oracle) documentation only documents how to use an ISO as
> the kickstart distribution, so this issue isn't seen in that instance,
> because the base packages are available on the ISO alongside the boot
> images. Using an ISO as the kickstart distribution avoids this issue
> completely.
>
>
> On 4 Apr 2016, at 12:29 PM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, thank you.
>
> That should be very clearly stated in the docs. Probably in a pull quote.
>
> Cheers
> L.
>
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>
> - Grace Hopper
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> On 4 April 2016 at 11:46, Avi Miller <avi.miller at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Spacewalk doesn't actually enable the parent channel during kickstart. It
>> uses the kickstart distribution and whatever packages are available via the
>> ISO. If you're using a stripped distribution (i.e. the just the boot
>> images, no packages/repodata) then it doesn't work at all. You need to add
>> the full base channel into the kickstart distribution for this to work.
>>
>> I've just been through this myself, as it happens.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Avi
>>
>> > On 4 Apr 2016, at 11:17 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've got a strange error that I think someone mentioned here recently
>> but I can't see it in a google search just now.
>> >
>> >
>> > I create a Parent channel, and associate it with a repository, then add
>> child channels and associate them with their appropriate repositories.
>> >
>> > I create the Activation key, associate it with the Parent Channel,
>> create the kickstart profile associated with the channel etc etc.
>> >
>> > When I boot, I get the error :
>> >
>> > You have requested that the package 'x' should be installed. This
>> package does not exist. Would you like to ignore this package and continue
>> with the installation?'
>> >
>> > (in this case x= hwloc-devel, but I think that's irrelevant' - if I
>> answer yes, it just asks for every package)
>> >
>> > When I search the Parent Channel for the software in question, it is
>> definitely in there. (see attachment)
>> >
>> > This is annoying and stops my installation.
>> >
>> > Interestingly, if I create a Child Channel, called centos_7_base, which
>> is the base install (ie, exactly the same as the Parent - associated with
>> the same repo!), then the installation works fine. For some reason, the ks
>> profile can see the packages in the child channels but isn't seeing any in
>> the parent channel.
>> >
>> > Am I wrongly envisioning what the Parent Channel is? Should the parent
>> not have a repo/set of packages?
>> >
>> > How might I trouble shoot this - where are the logs, which commands are
>> failing?
>> >
>> > If I disassociate the Parent Channel with any repos, will this cause
>> any issues?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > L.
>> >
>> >
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