Title: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 0.5, CentOS 5.3,
cobbler+kickstart:"Unable to read metadata"
On 04/22/2009 06:56 PM, Mike McCune wrote:
William Leese wrote:
> - After a client has updated it's packages, it still reports that
it
> requires updates.
> I read that this would be solved in a future update to
spacewalk-backend
> and spacewalk-java. I have however found no later package than
that of
> the 13th of april.
This is still OPEN in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496655
Ah great, I didn't know a ticket was opened.
> Anyhow, after the installer boots and anaconda starts, I get the
> following error
> "Unable to read metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata
> directory................. can't find repository: anaconda-......."
>
> So I'm missing the repodata directory. That's right, I just
downloaded
> the packages. So I createrepo-ed the directory containing the
RPMs, but
> to no avail.
>
> Any idea what's going wrong here?
>
Couple questions:
* What does the "Tree Path" field say on the Kickstart ->
Distribution
page in your GUI?
* Does that path have underneath it a tree-path/repodata directory? So
if your Tree Path is:
/var/lib/repo/centos-53/
you would want to see:
/var/lib/repo/centos-53/repodata
The above sounds like you ran createrepo from within the RPMs directory.
Try running from the same dir as your 'Tree Path'.
My guess I did something wrong here. I honestly think I had a repodata
underneath the tree path directory, but I cleaned everything up
yesterday and used the copy from cd method instead. Perhaps there could
be an extra check or another bullet point on the relevant page
(kickstart/add distribution), to avoid this problem in the future.
The reason why this all went wrong, was that I used the following
document: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk
which merely concerns itself with pulling in the packages with reposync
and pushing them into the channel, with no regard to how to setup
spacewalk+cobbler.
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Met vriendelijke groet,
William Leese
ICT Infra Linux Beheer
T +31 (0) 70 3342698
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