Re: Wierd traceback on update

OK, I've just found what the problem is.

Hunter, pay attention here, 1.4.x is still your baby.

The line immediately before the symlink command does an os.path.exists
sanity check to see if the link exists already or not.  Well, the
problem is, the check follows any existing link to see if the target
exists; so it sees the symlink, sees the target file doesn't exist, and
returns 0.  Then the symlink command gets called, but since the symlink
already exists (pointing nowhere), you get the OSError 17.

I'll try to come up with a sane patch over the weekend and see if I
can't get Hunter to make a point release, but we're both extremely busy
lately, and Current's been kinda relegated to my back burner for the
time being...

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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