Created attachment 772098 [details]
Log of failed upgrade

Hi,

There's a fc17 package (from rpmfusion) that provides "nvidia-304xx-kmod-common = :304.88". I have a spacewalk channel set up to synchronize with the upstream repository. Using spacewalk and yum-rhn-plugin, yum thinks that the provides isn't satisfied, thus is unable to find a clean upgrade path and fails with the following error (see attachments):

Error: Package: kmod-nvidia-304xx-3.9.8-100.fc17.i686.PAE-304.88-1.fc17.5.i686
(fedora17-i386-rpmfusion-nonfree)
           Requires: nvidia-304xx-kmod-common >= 304.88
           Installing: xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-304xx-304.88-8.fc17.i686
(fedora17-i386-rpmfusion-nonfree)
               nvidia-304xx-kmod-common = :304.88

It seems it doesn't like the empty epoch and doesn't parse it correctly.

A direct upgrade from the rpmfusion repository works fine ; same for a yum localinstall of this package (yum is able to resolve dependencies properly, see attachments).

(Note that it also affects kickstart installs, which fail to resolve the dependency as well.)

I compared the original primary.xml.gz repodata from rpmfusion (http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/updates/17/i386/repodata/) to the one provided by spacewalk after synchronization, and the epoch was changed from epoch="0" to epoch="" in the XML file for this package.

So I suppose the component responsible for parsing the rpm and generating repodata (taskomatic?) should replace an empty epoch by "0", otherwise it confuses the dependency resolver?

Thanks!

Rpmfusion bug: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2874

On the clients:
$ rpm -qa '*rhn*'
rhnmd-5.3.11-1.fc17.noarch
rhncfg-5.10.36-1.fc17.noarch
yum-rhn-plugin-1.8.8-1.fc17.noarch
rhn-custom-info-5.4.14-1.fc17.noarch
rhncfg-management-5.10.36-1.fc17.noarch
rhn-client-tools-1.8.26-1.fc17.noarch
rhncfg-client-5.10.36-1.fc17.noarch
rhn-setup-1.8.26-1.fc17.noarch
rhn-check-1.8.26-1.fc17.noarch
rhncfg-actions-5.10.36-1.fc17.noarch
rhnlib-2.5.55-1.fc17.noarch
rhnsd-5.0.4-1.fc17.i686

On the server:
# rpm -qa 'spacewalk*'
spacewalk-branding-1.8.7-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-xmlrpc-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-config-files-tool-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-setup-jabberd-1.8.7-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-monitoring-selinux-1.8.4-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-repo-1.8-4.el6.noarch
spacewalk-slf4j-1.6.1-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-libs-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-sql-postgresql-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-java-config-1.8.181-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-selinux-1.8.2-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-grail-1.8.49-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-common-1.8.6-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-monitoring-1.4.1-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-base-1.8.49-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-config-1.8.6-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-config-files-common-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-tools-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-taskomatic-1.8.181-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-applet-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-search-1.8.6-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-setup-1.8.24-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-sniglets-1.8.49-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-java-1.8.181-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-utils-1.8.33-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-doc-indexes-1.1.1-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-pxt-1.8.49-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-admin-1.8.6-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-certs-tools-1.8.4-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-java-postgresql-1.8.181-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-server-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-app-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-java-lib-1.8.181-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-config-files-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-iss-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-schema-1.8.89-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-base-minimal-1.8.49-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-sql-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-package-push-server-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-postgresql-1.8.6-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-xml-export-libs-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-backend-iss-export-1.8.85-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-html-1.8.49-1.el6.noarch
spacewalk-jpp-workaround-1.0.4-1.el6.noarch