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snippet --> As of 02/13/2018 --> We have not found a better solution.. We ran into issues where "yum update" updated the centos-release RPM, which in turn would push updated .repos to /etc/yum.repos.d/. This would cause a similar issue to the errors described. The solution we came up with, was to put the following in the post section of the default kickstart: If there is a better idea, I am all ears. mkdir -p /some/where/ echo "reposdir=" /some/where/" >> /etc/yum.conf Some benefits, by doing this has been that 3rd party vendor apps that install their own /etc/yum.repos.d/ will not cause any delays or issues with running yum commands (if they cannot reach the site). If the client is able to reach the site, then a request process will move the 3rd party .repo in /some/where. Thanks and good luck From: Isaac Hailperin <isaac.hailpe...@lcsystems.ch> To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com" <spacewalk-list@redhat.com> Date: 02/13/2018 01:28 AM Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Fix yum repo definitions on spacewalk clients Sent by: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com This email originated from outside of the company. Please use discretion if opening attachments or clicking on links. Bruce – thank you for the hint to just disable the repos – of course, now that you mention it its crystal clear J Isaac From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [ mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Wainer Sent: Montag, 12. Februar 2018 16:53 To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Fix yum repo definitions on spacewalk clients The yum-rhn-plugin loads them directly from Spacewalk I believe, or maybe its cached during an rhn_check - not sure which. That is why when you run any Yum command it prints out the line about "This server is receiving updates from a Spacewalk system" or something like that (don't have a terminal open right now). By the way, don't delete your .repo files, because updates to things like epel-release, zfs-release, etc will just create them again. Instead, disable all of the repos. This is what I run on each system as part of my registration process: #sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo Bruce Wainer On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 10:42 AM, Isaac Hailperin < isaac.hailpe...@lcsystems.ch> wrote: Ok, just verified: If I remove the .repo file for epel, the "epel/x86_64" is gone. But how does yum know about the other repository? Where is that defined? Does yum have a plugin that lets it query the correct repositories directly from spacewalk? Isaac Von: Isaac Hailperin Gesendet: Montag, 12. Februar 2018 16:39 An: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Betreff: AW: [Spacewalk-list] Fix yum repo definitions on spacewalk clients Avi - interesting point: # yum repolist |grep epel * epel: mirror.de.leaseweb.net epel/x86_64 Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 7 12,278 !epel7-centos7-x86_64 EPEL 7 for CentOS 7 (x86_64) 13,357 I think the latter is the one defined in spacewalk. However there seems to be not corresponding yum repo in /etc/yum.repos.d - is that how it should be? So all I would need to to is delete the local definition of epel? Isaac Von: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com ]" im Auftrag von "Avi Miller [avi.mil...@oracle.com] Gesendet: Montag, 12. Februar 2018 16:30 An: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Fix yum repo definitions on spacewalk clients Hi, On 12 Feb 2018, at 11:51 am, Isaac Hailperin <isaac.hailpe...@lcsystems.ch > wrote: What would be the easiest, or most reliable way to get the correct repo definitions back? There may be a misunderstanding here, but Spacewalk does not generate anything in /etc/yum.repos.d/. You don't see any repo definitions on the client side, it's all done in Spacewalk. What is the output of "yum repolist" on a client after it has registered with Spacewalk? If there are channels associated with the activation key you used, they should be automatically enabled. If not, you may have to enable the channels manually via the web UI or spacecmd. Cheers, Avi -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Product Management Director | +61 (3) 8616 3496 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list [attachment "smime.p7s" deleted by William H. ten Bensel/UPC] _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list Spacewalk-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list ** This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential and/or privileged for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any use, review, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance by others, and any forwarding of this email or its contents, without the express permission of the sender is strictly prohibited by law. 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