Re: new up2date

<sigh>

No idea, since I haven't tested (nor declared current ready) 8.0



On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 09:10, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 8.0, and it is working with my Current server
> fine right now, but I had an issue when I first ran up2date on the 8.0
> box.  I had a fresh install, and never tried to connect to the RHN
> servers, I just hacked my configs to point to my Current server.  The
> registration code in up2date didn't like this.  Here is the error I was
> getting:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 801, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 463, in main
>     ret = configdlg.main(options.firstboot)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 365, in main
>     gui = Gui(firstboot)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 79, in
> __init__
>     self.setInitialValues()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configdlg.py", line 95, in
> setInitialValues
>     self.serverUrls = configUtils.getServerUrls()
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/configUtils.py", line 38, in
> getServerUrls    serverUrls = rpcServer.doCall(s.servers.list, systemid)
>   File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 107, in doCall
>     ret = apply(method, args, kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 821, in __call__
>     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/rpclib.py", line 126, in
> _request
>     verbose=self._verbose
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 141,
> in request
>     return self.parse_response(fd)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhn/transports.py", line 160,
> in parse_response
>     p.close()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/xmlrpclib.py", line 393, in close
>     self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data
> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
> 
> I still have the original /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date that had the
> problem, so I can go back and reproduce it if you'd like me to do any
> more testing.  I put back the original up2date configuration and tried
> connecting to RHN.  This worked, and I killed up2date just after it
> asked to import the RHN GPG keys into my keyring, without actually
> signing up for RHN.   Doing this created a new
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date, so I took this file and pointed it at my
> Current server, and everything worked fine.
> 
> One more thing.  In /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date there is a line for where
> to find the CA certificate:
> 
> sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT
> 
> I changed this to
> 
> sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT.current
> 
> instead of overwriting the file.  In versions prior to 8.0, you couldn't
> really do this, since there wasn't a corresponding entry in
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/rhn_register.  Since there is no rhn_register with
> 8.0, you don't need to worry about that anymore.  Changing the location
> of the CA cert could be useful, since the RedHat updates to up2date have
> overwritten it in the past.
> 
> Woogie
> 
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 12:02, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> > current-0.20021011
> > 
> > Is on the ftp/web site. It _IS_ 1.4.2 unless you people find a bug.
> > 
> > It is supposed to serve 2.8 and 3.0 clients, as documented in the
> > README/CHANGELOG/RELEASE-NOTES in the package.
> > 
> > Please test this extra super carefully on 3.0 clients - I cannot test
> > them directly as yet. The 2.8 backport seems to work for me here, but
> > since I'm not uber confident, its a snap and not a full out release.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:41, John Berninger wrote:
> > > This si the result of the back-port of the 3.0 API (in RHL 8.0) to the
> > > 7.x series; Current has not yet been updated to handle this new API.
> > > Hunter and I are working on that and other stuff now.
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > >   Today I installed up2date update (up2date-2.8.39-1.7.1). Machine
> > > > is RedHat 7.1.
> > > > 
> > > >   And trying to use it got such error messages:
> > > > 
> > > > # up2date -lu
> > > > 
> > > > Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.1...
> > > > ########################################
> > > > 
> > > > Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.1...
> > > > There was a fatal error communicating with the server.  The message was:
> > > > 400: "Function getObsoletes not recognized" while attempting to get 
> > > > $RHN/redhat-linux-i386-7.1/getObsoletes/20021011062138
> > > > 
> > > >   Is that something that upgrade from my ancient 1.0.5 version
> > > > of current to 1.4.x would fix? I know that I'm way behind but
> > > > "don't fix it if it works" :).
> > > > 
> > > >   Mindaugas
> > > > 
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