Spacewalk and repos

So the info that is on the spacewalk wiki can die in a digital fire, it's random and sporadic on repo requirements.

Repo requirements of Centos 6.2:

• rpm -Uvh http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6/RHEL/6/x86_64/spacewalk-repo-1.6-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• rpm -ihv http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/1.6-client/RHEL/5/x86_64/spacewalk-client-repo-1.6-1.el5.noarch.rpm
• rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

And my favorite:

• sudo touch /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic.repo
• File contents:

• [jpackage-generic]
  name=JPackage generic
  #baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/pub/jpackage/5.0/generic/free/
  mirrorlist=http://www.jpackage.org/mirrorlist.php?dist=generic&type=free&release=5.0
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc

At this point tweak your yum config as chances are its metadata cache may be gimped.  Errors can include "failure: repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from spacewalk-client: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try".

• Edit /etc/yum.conf and add the following line
• http_caching=packages
• sudo yum clean metadata