empty directories

Bob Van Cleef <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:26:25 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups	gmane.network.up2date.current.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
FYI:

Apparently cadmin does not deal well with empty directories. I ran create
for a channel whose rpm_directory pointed to an empty directory.  Here are
the results.

[548] > cadmin create redhat-7.3-sparc
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0720 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0720 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0720 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0720 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0720 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0720 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0721 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0721 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package
error: read failed: Is a directory (21)
Dec 17 11:0721 : EXCEPTION in /usr/share/current/channel.py, 
_getHeaderFromFilename(), 592 [logException()]
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 589, in 
_getHeaderFromFilename
    (header, isSource) = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)
rpm.error: error reading package