Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-03 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, James Hogarth wrote: With 35 machines currently in my spacewalk install and an estimated 60 yet to come and all configuration managed centrally by spacewalk along with local replicas of various yum repos in channels it would, quite frankly, be infeasible to do a fresh install

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-03 Thread James Hogarth
> Hi Bruce, > > if your deployment consists of hundereds or thousands servers and use > config channels then it's impossible to start over and over. And then you > have to upgrade. > > Regards, > > -- > Michael Mráka > Satellite Engineering, Red Hat > > _

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Mraka
Bushby, Bruce (London)(c) wrote: % % This is probably a stupid questionbut why "upgrade" spacewalk as apposed to "re-deploying" a fresh install? % % I've always avoided upgrades finding they're more head ache then they're worth. On the client side, my build is so automated it's quicker to "

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Mraka
Marcus Moeller wrote: % > Of course we do support upgrades from one released version to another so % > the main upgrade polishing comes regularly just before release :). % % I am aware of it. It is my testing env and this is more an informational note. ... % > % CREATE TABLE rhnChecksumType % > %

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-02 Thread Bushby, Bruce (London)(c)
you would export/import their configs. -Original Message- From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Moeller Sent: 02 February 2010 11:27 To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nigh

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Michael. > nightly is latest development and experimental stuff and although we do > our best regarding upgrades we frankly don't support them (to nightly), > installation should always work. > > Of course we do support upgrades from one released version to another so > the main upgrade polis

Re: [Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-02 Thread Michael Mraka
Marcus Moeller wrote: % Hi all, % % I have upgrade my 0.7 to nightly and ran into problems during shema upgrade: Hi Marcus, nightly is latest development and experimental stuff and although we do our best regarding upgrades we frankly don't support them (to nightly), installation should always w

[Spacewalk-list] 0.7 upgrade to nightly

2010-02-02 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi all, I have upgrade my 0.7 to nightly and ran into problems during shema upgrade: CREATE TABLE rhnChecksumType * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object which leads to the following error during spacewalk-repo-sync: SQLStatementPrepareError: ('ORA-