Re: Problems with current 1.3.11

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:39, Rui Barreiros wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> i've downloaded and install current 1.3.11, (rpm) and followed all the
> steps in installation.txt etc etc.
> 
> Problems:
> - when requesting something, apache child segmentation faults, when
> adding the one and only channel (redhat-7.3-i386).
> - cadmin update channel gives the error:

The changelog says that cadmin update isn't updated for 1.3.11

The RELEASE-NOTES _should_ have said that, but they don't - they will
tomorrow.

You must use cadmin create in 1.3.10/1.3.11 and probably 1.3.12
(which will be out tomorrow or thur)

> 
> ERROR: who does the headers_dir not exist for a pre-existing channel?
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/cadmin", line 268, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/cadmin", line 190, in main
>     mychan.update(chan)
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 148, in update
>     self._addSrcDir(dir)
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 1004, in _addSrcDir
>     self._addSrcPackage(pathname, file)
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 1025, in _addSrcPackage
>     linkname = misc.PathJoin(self.chanInfo['packagesource_dir'],
> KeyError: packagesource_dir

You didn't recreate your database from your earlier install, it looks
like. 
cadmin create redhat-7.3-i386
service httpd start

Should fix this. Make sure you use the current.conf file from 1.3.11, as
the config items in it have changed from 1.3.4 and earlier.

> 
> Seem's that create doesn't create the dir headers in the db_dir (that's
> why the ERROR above), and the var chanInfo['packagesource_dir'] doesn't
> existe at the time update() is run (should be probably created on
> __init__ ? dunno python that much). I made a little hack, added these
> lines right after the :
> 
> self.chanInfo['schema_version'] = SCHEMA_VERSION
> 
> self.chanInfo['list_dir'] = '%s/%s' % \
>     (self.chanInfo['web_dir'], 'listPackages')
> self.chanInfo['headers_dir'] = '%s/%s' % \
>     (self.chanInfo['web_dir'], 'getPackageHeader')
> self.chanInfo['packagesource_dir'] = '%s/%s' % \
>     (self.chanInfo['web_dir'], 'getPackageSource')
> self.chanInfo['package_dir'] = '%s/%s' % \
>     (self.chanInfo['web_dir'], 'getPackage')
> 
> we should only need packagesource_dir, but i left the other too.
> 
> - Error when cadmin checkdb channel
> this one i couldn't fix it (as i said before, dunno python that much,
> not my language), here's the error:

checkdb is in the same catagory as 'update' - the database code has
changed A LOT in 1.3.1x, and I haven't had a chance to update those code
paths.


> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/cadmin", line 268, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/cadmin", line 175, in main
>     mychan.check_consistency(chan['db_dir'])
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 108, in check_consistency
>     check = int(self.chanInfo['srpm_check'])
> KeyError: srpm_check
> 
> Same problem than the packagesource_dir, the key is not defined, i tried
> to find for all the source (grep -i srpm_check) but found nothing, so i
> don't know how srp_check would be defined.
> 
> p.s: i was wondering if it wasn't easier to make such a thing in perl,
> or if there is any way of combining the python created db's with perl?

Since I don't know perl, John doesn't know perl, up2date isn't written
in perl, and perl wouldn't help here, I doubt it.

> 
> my best wishes, and keep up the good work.
> 
> Rui Barreiros
> 
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