Description of problem: The rhel-instnum package is not Required by any other and when it is not installed, systems cannot register to Spacewalk server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Spacewalk 0.3 How reproducible: Deterministic. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Spacewalk on RHEL 5. 2. rpm -e rhel-instnum 3. Try to register system. Actual results: # rhnreg_ks --server http://server/XMLRPC --username admin --password xxxxx --force An error has occurred: While running 'registration.welcome_message': caught exceptions.KeyError : 'xmlrpc' See /var/log/up2date for more information and on the Spacewalk server, there is RHN 28698 2008/12/12 15:12:16 +02:00: ('Error importing xmlrpc: No module named instnum',) in /var/log/httpd/error_log and 2008/12/12 15:12:16 +02:00 28698 10.34.34.139: server/rhnImport.load('ERROR', 'Error importing xmlrpc: No module named instnum') in /var/log/rhn/rhn_server_xmlrpc.log. Expected results: We should not be able to install Spacewalk without the rhel-instnum package. In another words, someone ought to Require that thing. Additional info: This is an upstream bugzilla for bug 472368.
Fix committed in 5bc219c9df434b1426e3ac1f1b371fc1382ef3f7.
Removing bug 472368 is blocked by this bug.
[root@dhcp77-206 tmp]# rpm -e rhel-instnum error: Failed dependencies: rhel-instnum is needed by (installed) spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc-0.4.15-1.el5.noarch VERIFIED