[Yum] A Problem with Red Hat's yum-rhn-plugin and a local repo mirror

[James Antill]

Dan White <ygor at comcast.net> writes:

> Red Hat Bugzilla ~ Bug 746053: yum-rhn-plugin busted: Repository rhel-x86_64-server-5 is listed more than once in the configuration
>
> Red Hat Enterprise 5.7 x86_64 kernel 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5
>
> yum-rhn-plugin.noarch-0.5.4-22.el5_7.2
>
> Running a cobbler-built local repository mirror for cobbler/PXE/Kickstarting
> systems.  There are third party repos and a custom repo of locally required
> packages.
>
> After an update that changed me from yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5 to
> yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5_7.2, I started getting failure on any yum command
> with the message "Repository rhel-x86_64-server-5 is listed more than once in
> the configuration".
>
> I found the following workarounds: 
>
> * disable yum-rhn-plugin by using "--disableplugin=rhnplugin" on the command
> line
>
> * downgrade to yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5 (yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-22.el5_7.1 has
> the same issue) and put "exclude=yum-rhn-plugin" in /etc/yum.conf
>
> It looks like an old bug crawled back into yum-rhn-plugin
> Ref: <https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-15495>

 So ... this it the yum users list, not the developer list. And the
yum developers are far from experts on yum-rhn-plugin. So you might
get more ideas/help if you talk to the RHN developers.
 However I do know that recent versions of the RHN plugin would cache
the list of channels the system was subscribed to ... so that might be
the problem.

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>
> Second question: Is there a way to do the equivalent of a yum-versionlock at the repository ?

 I'm not sure what you mean ... if you mean apply versionlock
semantics (basically version specific excludes) to just a single
repo. ... then there's no user way to do that atm. ... but the APIs
would allow it.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org