Created attachment 320579 [details] screenshot Description of problem: If a customer is using a base channels other than official rhel channels they will run into a problem when using our "enable config management" tool. The satellite will look for a specific network tools channel associated with a base channel. If the sat admin creates a child tools channel w/ anything other than what satellite is expecting.. the function will not work. see screenshot for webui view of function
What if we add another attribute to a channel that indicates it's relationship instead of using the channel labels? This would make it more flexible for other use cases which are similar.
I encountered this problem while doing a Spacewalk 0.5 installation. The customer created a base channel from a RHEL 5.3 copy and a child channel with the label "rhel5-server-x86_64-rhn-tools". rhnreg_ks printed this error during Kickstart installation: An error has occurred: Internal Server Error See /var/log/up2date for more information The same error was printed by rhn_check when we ran it after the reboot. The Web UI showed a couple of pending events for the system. In /var/log/httpd/error_log, we got this: Exception Handler Information Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/server/apacheRequest.py", line 120, in call_function response = apply(func, params) File "/usr/share/rhn/server/handlers/xmlrpc/queue.py", line 283, in get ret = self.__getV2(action) File "/usr/share/rhn/server/handlers/xmlrpc/queue.py", line 89, in __getV2 result = method(self.server_id, action['id']) File "/usr/share/rhn/server/action/kickstart_host.py", line 29, in add_tools_channel subscribe_to_tools_channel(server_id) File "/usr/share/rhn/server/rhnChannel.py", line 2379, in subscribe_to_tools_channel raise NoToolsChannel("Base channel id %s does not have a RHN Tools channel as a child channel." % \ NoToolsChannel: Base channel id 130 does not have a RHN Tools channel as a child channel. As a quick workaround, I patched /usr/share/rhn/server/rhnChannel.py from spacewalk-backend-server-0.5.34-1.el5: --- /usr/share/rhn/server/rhnChannel.py.orig 2009-06-10 14:25:54.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/rhn/server/rhnChannel.py 2009-06-10 14:28:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ tools_channel = None for channel in child_channels: if channel.has_key('label'): - if channel['label'].find('rhn-tools') == 0: + if channel['label'].find('rhn-tools') != -1: tools_channel = channel if tools_channel is None: This allows the "rhn-tools" keyword to be anywhere in the label, instead of forcing it to be at the start.
commit 0bcf3672c1a4fd995b8bcec6fe12ea3b91eda1f8 Author: Pradeep Kilambi <pkilambi> Date: Fri Jul 31 13:05:49 2009 -0400 467281 - Instead of checking for the start now we check if tools is in the channel label. This is not a perfect solution but at least covers few more cases. An ideal solution would be to add some kind of a relation ship between parent and child signifying that this is a tools channel for a given parent.
Spacewalk 0.6 released