Spacewalk 2.3 tested to work with Ubuntu / Debian clients
As announced on the Spacewalk Mailinglist Spacewalk 2.3 is going to be released soon and is on QA/QE now.
I took this as a reason for testing Ubuntu / Debian integration with Spacewalk 2.3 from nightly repo. As it turns out, everything is working good, namely:
- Creation of Debian Channels
- Pushing / Syncing .deb packages to Spacewalk
- Registering Ubuntu systems
- Importing Ubuntu Errata ( I updated errata-import.pl script slightly to make it work )
- OSAD
- Package management
- Remote Command Execution
Refer to my other articles around Spacewalk about how to set all this up.
I am wondering if the new version properly supports Multi-Arch packages now.
Tom
Hi Phil,
which version of Debian did you test with spacewalk 2.3? Also Jessie?
I pushed all packages from jessie main (binary-amd64) into a channel. I can connect a client to spacewalk, but as soon as I run “apt-get update”, parsing the lists terminates with an error.
Reading package lists… Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing games-sport (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/spacewalk-test_dists_channels:_main_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
root@debian-test4:/var/lib/apt/lists#
Regards,
Robert
There is a problem with the Package.gz format, in this bug report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226329 show a temporary workaround with sed but it still not working to install packages