The rpm issue I was having has been traced to a bad package that was installed. After replacing the package, rhnreg_ks works.
While is seems odd that the wrong packages are being served for noarch and i386 packages, currently it is only the redhat-logos package that is causing me trouble, so forcing that one package to be correct is an acceptable work around. Dave On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:05 PM, David Crim <[email protected]> wrote: > I set up a Spacewalk 0.6 server and loaded the CentOS 5.3 i386 base > and update package repositories. Everything seemed to work great. Then > I added CentOS 5.3 x86_64 base and update package repositories. The > builds of the 64-bit systems failed. > > The initial problem was complaints about not being able to get the > redhat-logos package, even though I could get a shell with Alt-F2 and > use wget to download the package it said wasn't available. After a lot > of poking around at the system, I noticed that since this package was > for noarch, Spacewalk was reporting that the same package file was > available from both the 32-bit and 64-bit repositories. The MD5sum of > the package was the correct one for 32-bit packages. > > I deleted the 32-bit package from the 64-bit repo and forced an add of > the version from the 64-bit package and the base install continued > with out an issue. However, now that the system is built, it is > complaining about rpm errors and recommending running rpm --rebuilddb > when I run rhnreg_ks. I suspect that the fact that Spacewalk is > reporting that all of the .noarch.rpm and .i386.rpm packages in the > 64-bit repo are the same ones in the 32-bit repo that I have installed > packages from the 32-bit install instead of the 64-bit install. > > I tried deleting all the .noarch.rpm and .i386.rpm packages from the > 64-bit repo and reloading with rhn_push, but they all still point at > the versions with the MD5sum of the 32-bit versions. The packages > from the 64-bit install are in /var/satellite/redhat/1 under the > proper md5sum leading digits, but the web interface reports that the > 64-bit repo is using the packages with the md5sums 32-bit packages. > > Is there an easy way to be sure that the packages from the 64-bit > distribution are used even if they match the name of the 32-bit > version? I'd rather not have to go through each package individially > and force them like I did with redhat-logos. > > Is there a better way to install the initial repo? I am not opposed to > deleting all the packages and reinstalling if I did something wrong > during the initial push. The command I used to install the packages > looked like: > > rhnpush --channel=channel-label --server=http://localhost/APP \ > --dir=/var/distro-trees/path/to/install/DVD/image \ > --username=USERID --password=PASSWORD > > Dave > _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
