Re: grab 1.0.5 bombs on local RPM repo's

Try a grab --cleanall. --clean now only removes the locally cached RPMS but
leaves the databases.

I think that there is a currupt database. Unfortunatly it will need to be
reinitialized (may take a while, sorry).

Let me know if that works.

Greg

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 11:50:41AM -0700, Ami Fischman wrote:
> Hi there,
> Just upgraded to grab 1.0.5, did a grab --clean && grab --update
> on config files that used to work fine w/ 1.0.3 (although I haven't used
> grab in a couple of months), and got the following output:
> 
> ,----
> | # grab --clean && grab --update
> | -Cleaning cache /var/cache/grab/RPMS/
> | -All cached files have been cleaned
> | -Creating Download Directory "/var/cache/grab/RPMS/"
> | -Updating remote RPM cache database
> |  ->Grabbed and indexed [1] RPMS from [email protected]
> |  ->Grabbed and indexed [217] RPMS from ximian@rpmfind
> |  ->Grabbed and indexed [1472] RPMS from rawhide@kernel
> |  ->Grabbed and indexed [1232] local RPMS from RedHat72_CDROM_IMAGE
> |  ->Grabbed and indexed [2671] local RPMS from RedHat73_CDROM_IMAGE
> |  ->Grabbed and indexed [2671] local RPMS from LOCAL_CACHE
> | -Updating remote provides database with new packages
> |   (you can disable this in /etc/grab/defaults or --nodeps)
> |  -> 0% 4Suite-0.11-2.i386.rpmerror: open of ftp:///root/rh72/RPMS/4Suite-0.11-2.i386.rpm failed: Operation not permitted
> | warning: u 0x8053fb0 ctrl 0x805b1b0 nrefs != 0 (/root ftp)
> |  -> 0% 4Suite-0.11.1-10.i386.rpm      
> | [...]
> `----
> 
> As you can see, I have grab configured to check the following repositories:
> - grab
> - ximian@rpmfind
> - rawhide@kernel
> - 3 local RPM caches
> 
> Grab seems to bomb on the local caches in the "provides database" phase,
> though (instead of just looking at the files, it is trying to look through
> ftp at: ftp:///root/rh72/RPMS/4Suite-0.11-2.i386.rpm and such.  I get an
> error msg for each of the RPMs in the local repo (and break out of grab
> after a few).  Is this a known problem with local repositories?  The
> closest I could find in the mailing list archives for this problem were a
> couple of posts from Staf Verhaegen on June 8'th and 9'th.
> 
> Any help appreciated,
> -- 
>   Ami Fischman
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