Re: empty directories

This may be more of a problem with recursing directories, but I thought
we'd put in code to handle that.  What version of Current were you using
at the time?  I'll try to take a look at it as soon as I have some free
time...

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Bob Van Cleef wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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