[tools] mrepo, RHEL 5 and rhnget

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, Frédéric PICA wrote:

> Dag, I've tried with uuidgen but now, I've got that :
> Setting option confdir in section [main] to: /etc/mrepo.conf.d
> Setting option srcdir in section [main] to: /var/ftp/mirror/updates
> Setting option wwwdir in section [main] to: /var/www/mrepo
> Setting option mailto in section [main] to: root at localhost
> Setting option smtp-server in section [main] to: localhost
> Setting option arch in section [main] to: i386
> Setting option rhnlogin in section [main] to: user:pass
> Setting option arch in section [rhel5] to: i386
> rhel5-i386: Updating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
> rhel5-i386: Mirror packages from rhns:///rhel-i386-server-fastrack-5 to
> /var/ftp/mirror/updates/rhel5-i386/fastrack
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/rhnget", line 475, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/rhnget", line 454, in main
>     mirrorrhn(op.uri, op.destination)
>   File "/usr/bin/rhnget", line 335, in mirrorrhn
>     systemid = rhnlogin(url, path)
>   File "/usr/bin/rhnget", line 302, in rhnlogin
>     li = rpcServer.doCall(server.up2date.login, systemid)
>   File "/root/rhn/up2date_client/rpcServer.py", line 246, in doCall
>     raise up2dateErrors.CommunicationError(e.args[1])
> up2date_client.up2dateErrors.CommunicationError: Error communicating with
> server. The message was:
> Name or service not known
> mrepo: Mirroring failed for rhns:///rhel-i386-server-fastrack-5 with
> message:
>   Failed with return code: 256

Name or service not known definitely looks like a DNS problem.
Can you resolve xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com ?

Try:
	host xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com

on that system.


> Perhaps they have done some modifications to the protocol itself for
> rhel5...

I doubt it. It still needs to work with RHEL2.1, RHEL3 and RHEL4.

Kind regards,
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