Description of problem:
The solaris port of the up2date client has been broken for a few versions.  Discussions of this have been bandied about on the spacewalk-devel list for some time.  I feel remiss at not having submitted a BZ for this before now.

This seemed to break at around v1.0 of Spacewalk and remains broken now.  The version of the client packaged here: (http://jlsherrill.fedorapeople.org/solaris/) is quite old.

Here's an excerpt of the discussion on the list:

My Solaris x86 up2date client worked at one point, not sure if it was with Spacewalk v0.8 or v0.7, but with v1.0 … a simple up2date no longer works.  Here’s the output:

# up2date SMCsudo

Updating cache...                                ################################################################## [100%]


Fetching packages...
-> rhn://sol-x86_64-server-extras-10/SMCsudo/1.7.2p1/.../SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i386-solaris.pkg
SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i38..                                                                    [  0%]

error: Failed to download packages:
error:     rhn://sol-x86_64-server-extras-10/SMCsudo/1.7.2p1/1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen/i386-solaris/SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i386-solaris.pkg: rhn.client.rhnErrors.FileNotFoundError


# smart --log-level=debug download SMCsudo
Loading cache...
Updating cache...                                ################################################################## [100%]

Fetching packages...
-> rhn://sol-x86_64-server-extras-10/SMCsudo/1.7.2p1/.../SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i386-solaris.pkg
SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i38..                                                                    [  0%]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/bin/smart", line 158, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 52, in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/commands/download.py", line 134, in main
    ctrl.downloadPackages(packages, targetdir=opts.target)
  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 457, in downloadPackages
    self.fetchPackages(fetchpkgs, caching, targetdir)
  File "/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 622, in fetchPackages
    raise Error, _("Failed to download packages:\n") + \
Error: Failed to download packages:
    rhn://sol-x86_64-server-extras-10/SMCsudo/1.7.2p1/1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen/i386-solaris/SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i386-solaris.pkg: rhn.client.rhnErrors.FileNotFoundError
error: Failed to download packages:
error:     rhn://sol-x86_64-server-extras-10/SMCsudo/1.7.2p1/1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen/i386-solaris/SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i386-solaris.pkg: rhn.client.rhnErrors.FileNotFoundError
Saving cache...


I can at least see what packages are available…

# up2date --showall

Updating cache...                                ################################################################## [100%]

RHATsmart-5.1.1-6_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrhnc-5.1.0-4_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATpossl-0.6-1.p24.6_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrcfgc-5.1.0-3.el5_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrcfga-5.1.0-3.el5_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrpush-5.1.1-1_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrhnl-1.8-7.p23_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrcfgm-5.1.0-3.el5_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATpythn-2.4.1-4.rhn.6.sol10_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
RHATrcfg-5.1.0-3.el5_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
SMCglib2-2.20.4-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen
SMCliconv-1.11-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen
SMClintl-3.4.0-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen
SMCnetsnmp-5.4.2.1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen
SMCossl-0.9.8l-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen
SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen
TIVsmCapi-Version_5_Release_5_Level_2.4-1_PSTAMP_2009_208_12_01_13
TIVsmCba-Version_5_Release_5_Level_2.4-1_PSTAMP_2009_208_12_01_23
ZOSdbidev-Dev_Release_08_15_2008-1_PSTAMP_2008.08.15.05.55
ZOSlibdbi-Dev_Release_08_15_2008-1_PSTAMP_2008.08.15.05.55
ZOSlibevt-0.2.8-1_PSTAMP_2008.08.18.08.08
ZOSsyslng-2.1.4-1_PSTAMP_2009.03.17.06.08
RHATossl-0.9.7a-33.24.rhn.2.sol9_PSTAMP_RHAT_RHN
SMClibgcc-3.4.1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen

Has anyone else seen this problem?  I’m a little stuck at this point.  I’m using the latest Solaris “bootstrap” that I found available for Solaris x86 (v5.1.1-3) … but that was released in Oct 2008… so I suspect the protocol has moved forward and left this behind…


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Completely.

Additional info:


More info… I’m trying to dig through the up2date/smart code on one of my Solaris clients… everything seems to work fine and from the API the smart client is given this is a URL for one of the packages in question:

URLs: ['rhn://sol-x86_64-server-extras-10/SMCsudo/1.7.2p1/1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen/i386-solaris/SMCsudo-1.7.2p1-1_PSTAMP_Steve_Christensen.i386-solaris.pkg']

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I think I finally made some progress with this issue.
It seems that some changes have occurred on the server backend scripts, but have not been ported to the Solaris client.

in /opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/solaris/loader.py in class SolarisRHNLoader on the Solaris client
in /usr/share/rhn/server/rhnPackage.py in the function get_package_path on the Spacewalk server (RHEL5)

Below I have added my hacks to get Solaris patches working. It seems rhnPackage.py was modified in 
commit 18b077ab79d7b19df0f29434156feca9b646e4bd

Someone with a more extensive background in python and Spacewalk can probably fix the client side without having to hack the server side as I did.

=================== Start of rhnPackage.patch =============================
--- rhn/server/rhnPackage.py.bak        2010-09-02 11:49:22.000000000 -0500
+++ rhn/server/rhnPackage.py        2010-09-10 09:11:02.000000000 -0500
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@
     """
     h = rhnSQL.prepare(statement)
     pkg = map(str, pkg)
+
+    # Note: pkg[0] - name
+    #       pkg[1] - epoch
+    #       pkg[2] - ver(sion)
+    #       pkg[3] - rel(ease)
+    #       pkg[4] - arch(itecture)
+    if pkg[0].startswith("patch-cluster-solaris-") or \
+       pkg[0].startswith("patch-solaris-"):
+       pkg[3]=pkg[1]
+
     h.execute(name = pkg[0], ver = pkg[2], rel = pkg[3], arch = pkg[4],
               channel = channel, server_id = server_id)
     rs = h.fetchall_dict()
=================== End of rhnPackage.patch =============================
=================== Start of solaris-loader.patch =============================
solaris-loader.patch
--- lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/solaris/loader.py.bak    Thu Sep
  9 12:53:50 2010
+++ lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/solaris/loader.py.new    Fri Sep
 10 08:57:06 2010
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
             else:
                 info["summary"] = ""
             info["baseurl"] = "rhn://%s/" % (pkg[-1])
-            info["location"] = "%s/%s/%s/%s" % (pkg[0], pkg[1], pkg[2], pkg[4]
)
+            info["location"] = "%s/%s/%s/%s" % (pkg[0], pkg[2], pkg[1], pkg[4]
)
 
             name = info["name"]
             extension = "pkg"
=================== End of solaris-loader.patch =============================