Description of problem: YUM install commands against the official spacewalk repositories fail because "rhnsd" appears to be missing from the repodata. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Tested against: http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0/RHEL/5/x86_64/ http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0/RHEL/6/x86_64/ How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -Uvh http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-2.0-3.el6.noarch.rpm 2. yum install rhn-client-tools rhn-check rhn-setup rhnsd m2crypto yum-rhn-plugin Actual results: --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: rhn-setup-2.0.1-1.el6.noarch (spacewalk) Requires: rhnsd You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest Expected results: Successful dependency resolution. Additional info: Installation succeeds if all packages are downloaded and installed from a local directory. Manually reviewing the primary.xml.gz file suggests rhnsd is missing.
My mistake. There was some confusion about the server and client repositories. Using the 2.0-client repo (which is what I had downloaded manually) works as expected. http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.0-client/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-2.0-3.el6.noarch.rpm
This BZ closed some time during 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7. Adding to 2.7 tracking bug.