Re: Wierd traceback on update

Are you running an update or a create on the repository?

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, John Stauffacher wrote:

> I just updated my rpm repository (running current-1.4.2) and I get this
> traceback:
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/cadmin", line 325, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/sbin/cadmin", line 260, in main
>     mychan.update()
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 182, in update
>     self._addRpmDir(dir)
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 624, in _addRpmDir
>     self._addRpmPackage(pathname)
>   File "/usr/share/current/channel.py", line 850, in _addRpmPackage
>     os.symlink(pathname, linkname)
> OSError: [Errno 17] File exists
> 
> I thought I had duplicate files so I re-mirrored updates.redhat.com and
> I still get the error. Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> ++
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