Bug 487688

Summary:	Kickstart Distribution Creation: Add a blurb about "repodata" being required and the path needs to be readable by apache
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	John Matthews <jmatthew>
Component:	WebUI	Assignee:	Justin Sherrill <jsherril>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	John Matthews <jmatthew>
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Priority:	high
Version:	530	CC:	bperkins, cperry, jbrownin
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Description John Matthews 2009-02-27 14:13:33 UTC

Description of problem:
/rhn/kickstart/TreeCreate.do displays instructions to a user.  These instruction discuss whats required when creating a directory to use for the "Tree Path" entry.  

We should update the instructions to note:
1) repodata is required
2) the directory needs to be readable by apache


Example for CentOS ks distro:
Mount CentOS ISO at /mnt/centos
mkdir /ks-tree-path
cp -R /mnt/centos/images /ks-tree-path
cp -R /mnt/centos/repodata /ks-tree-path
chown -R apache /ks-tree-path


 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Satellite-5.3.0-RHEL5-re20090220.1-i386-embedded-oracle.iso

Comment 1 Justin Sherrill 2009-04-01 23:15:44 UTC

0a73fda

Changed text to say:


The Tree Path must be a local disk path on your Spacewalk server containing the entire kickstart tree for a distribution include kernel, initrd, and repo information, but excluding any rpms. This directory should be readable by the apache and tomcat users. From within the specified tree path, a kernel should be available at "./images/pxeboot/vmlinuz" and an initrd image should be available at "./images/pxeboot/initrd.img". For instance, if you have media located on the Spacewalk server at: /var/distro-trees/rhel-5-server/ you would specify that path as your Tree Path value which would check for a kernel and initrd here: /var/distro-trees/rhel-5-server/images/pxeboot/

Comment 2 John Matthews 2009-04-20 18:47:28 UTC

ISO: Satellite-5.3.0-RHEL5-re20090413.0-i386-embedded-oracle.iso


/rhn/kickstart/TreeCreate.do

The Tree Path must be a local disk path on your RHN Satellite server containing the entire kickstart tree for a distribution include kernel, initrd, and repo information, but excluding any rpms. This directory should be readable by the apache and tomcat users. From within the specified tree path, a kernel should be available at "./images/pxeboot/vmlinuz" and an initrd image should be available at "./images/pxeboot/initrd.img". For instance, if you have media located on the RHN Satellite server at: /var/distro-trees/rhel-5-server/ you would specify that path as your Tree Path value which would check for a kernel and initrd here: /var/distro-trees/rhel-5-server/images/pxeboot/

Comment 3 Jeff Browning 2009-07-29 22:38:56 UTC

tested on dhcp77-153.rhndev.redhat.com

Comment 4 Brandon Perkins 2009-09-10 19:24:26 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-1434.html