Yep, I wget'd the files from the redhat spacewalk repo, scp'd them in a directory on a few client machines and ran "rpm -Uvh ./*.rpm" from that directory.
I have not been brave enough to add them to my spacewalk channels and have been doing the process manually on machines I've needed to patch. Patrick > -----Original Message----- > From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michiel van Es > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:56 AM > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Subject: RE: CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4 upgrade and > yum_rhn_plugin ==>WAS:Re:[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher not > running or not connecting > > Hi Patrick, > > That is ok mate ;) > But how did you do the upgrade on your centos 5.3 clients? > Did you do an rpm -UVH from these packages? > I really hope that stahma will update it's packages so an yum > update would supply the new yum version :) > > Kind regards, > > Michiel > ________________________________________ > From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > [spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Flaherty, > Patrick [pflahe...@wsi.com] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:51 PM > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Subject: RE: CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4 upgrade and > yum_rhn_plugin ==> WAS:Re:[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher > not running or not connecting > > Hey Michel, > > I re-read my original message, I probably should have been > less curt (sorry!). The work around seems to be use the > packages out the .6 repo ( > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.spacewalk.user/300 > 9 ). It also appears that the "offical" repos will be updated > when the packages are ported. > > The packages I needed were: > rhn-check-0.6.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm > rhnlib-2.5.13-1.el5.noarch.rpm > yum-rhn-plugin-0.6.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm > rhn-client-tools-0.6.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm > rhn-setup-0.6.4-1.el5.noarch.rpm > > Patrick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > > [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of > Michiel van Es > > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:28 AM > > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > > Subject: Re: CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4 upgrade and > yum_rhn_plugin ==> > > WAS:Re:[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher not running or not connecting > > > > Hi PAtrick, > > > > yes I know, that is my own thread but there is not a > solution for all > > my CentOS 5.3 machines wanting to upgrade to CentOS > > 5.4 and how I can upgrade my yum_rhn_plugin packages... > > > > Or am I missing a post? > > > > Michiel > > > > Flaherty, Patrick wrote: > > > Please see the thread "[Spacewalk-list] CentOS 5.4 64 bit and > > > spacewalk client tools", where this has been discussed for a fix. > > > > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.spacewalk.user/2988 > > > > > > Patrick > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > > >> [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of > > Michiel van > > >> Es > > >> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:36 AM > > >> To: Joshua Roys > > >> Cc: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > > >> Subject: CentOS 5.3 to CentOS 5.4 upgrade and > > yum_rhn_plugin ==> WAS: > > >> Re:[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher not running or not connecting > > >> > > >> Yes :) > > >> The next problem I got is to install the correct yum_rhn_plugin > > >> working with CentOS 5.4 ;) The problem is that a lot of CentoS 5 > > >> machines are now upgrading to CenOS 5.4 with a new yum > version not > > >> compatible with the yum_rhn_plugin installed by wget -q > > >> http://stahnma.fedorapeople.org/spacewalk-tools/spacewalk-clie > > >> nt-tools-0.0-1.noarch.rpm > > >> > > >> The question is now: how can I upgrae my centos 5.3 to > 5.4 without > > >> the dependency problems (yum_rhn_plugin being to old?) > > >> > > >> Kind regards, > > >> > > >> Michiel > > >> > > >> Joshua Roys wrote: > > >>> On 10/30/2009 10:11 AM, Michiel van Es wrote: > > >>>> FIXED IT! > > >>>> > > >>>> changed the max open files from 1024 to 2024 in the .xml > > files and > > >>>> moved /var/lib/jabberd/db to > > /var/lib/jabberd/old-jammer&& mkdir > > >>>> /var/lib/jabberd/db&& chown jabber:jabber > /var/lib/jabberd/db&& > > >>>> chmod > > >>>> 777 /var/lib/jabberd/db > > >>>> and restarted jabberd and now I see all connection > established :) > > >>>> > > >>>> Works like a charm! :D > > >>>> > > >>>> Michiel van Es wrote: > > >>> Nice! 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