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

[Dan White]

It gets worse.
This is a yum/cobbler/RedHat issue and I am having a tough time getting info from all the effected/responsible parties.

Red Hat just told me "the cobbler is not provided by Red Hat so issues related to cobbler repository will not be supported."

Is the local mirroring of a rhn repo part of yum or is it something cobbler added to the mix ?  My impression is that it is a yum feature that cobbler exploits.

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Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- James Antill <james-yum at and.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> > --------------
> >
> > 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
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