For the sake of argument,
I've upgraded the spacewalk server to 1.4 and the problem still persists.
To test this a little further, I build a base machine from the same kickstart
profile (removed the python-ethtool package from the install list).
Went to the spacewalk URL for the python-ethtool package, downloaded it, and
installed it with rpm and it installed fine, so there is no problem with the
package, or the fact that it's hosted, there is something wrong when the
kickstart process trys to get the package from the repo, it can't see it.
I am genuinely %101 stumped as to why this could be.
Matt
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Darcy
Sent: 18 May 2011 13:51
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 1.3 - python-ethtool package being a
problem within kickstart.
Centos 5.6 x86_64 hosting a Spacwalk 1.3 Oracle XE environment.
I've built a parent channel for Centos 5 with 3 child channels.
1.) Centos 5 updates
2.) Spacewalk clients
3.) EPEL (needed for python-ethtool for spacewalk registration)
My kickstart profile is for a test VM, it should build a simple VM install the
spacewalk client tools from the spacewalk client child repos and the
python-ethtool package from the EPEL child repo to allow the server to register
its self with the spacewalk server.
A kind user on the #spacewalk IRC explained I needed the EPEL repo for
python-ethtool as without this the client can't register with the spacewalk
server.
I've added the EPEL repo and told the kickstart profile to install
python-ethtool
When the kickstart build starts, it goes throught he basics, boots, lays out
the file system and then starts working out the packages, it complains that I
have specific a package "python-ethtool" that doesn't not exist abort continue
(see screen shot 1)
However....
the EPEL repo does contain the python-ethtool package, and if I hit the
download button on it, it does download the package. (see screen shot 2)
If I check the kickstart backgroun tty's I also see the epel repo being added
fine (see screen shot 3)
I've attatched the kickstart file to show how the build should work,
I have no idea why this package is not showing up as available and would
appreciate any suggestions.
The EPEL repo has been synced down from
http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/fedora/epel/5/x86_64/ and does not complain of
errors.
Thanks,
Matt
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