Bug 116641

Summary:	'IndexError: list index out of range' python traceback from 'dir' type channel
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Mike MacCana <mmaccana>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fanny Augustin <fmoquete>
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Version:	3.0
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Description Mike MacCana 2004-02-24 03:50:13 UTC

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Description of problem:
Hey guys,

up2date dumps the following when attempting to install a package from a dir type repository.

up2date -i dnstracer

Fetching package list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
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Fetching package list for channel: dag-dag...

Fetching http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/i386/base/pkglist.dag.bz2...
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Fetching package list for channel: redhat-el3-es-packages...
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Fetching package list for channel: mikes-custom-packages...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dag-dag...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-el3-es-packages...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: mikes-custom-packages...

Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel
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dnstracer                               1.7            1mm                 i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1190, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 776, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1069, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 79, in run
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 147, in __getPackages
  File "up2date.py", line 182, in getPackage
  File "rpcServer.py", line 112, in doCall
  File "repoDirector.py", line 35, in getPackage
  File "rpmSource.py", line 183, in getPackage
  File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/repoBackends/dirRepo.py", line 275, in getPackage
    fileName = pkg[7]
IndexError: list index out of range

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Attempt to install a package from a dir type repository    

Actual Results:  A python traceback similar to the above, regardless of package

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2004-04-06 19:32:38 UTC

seems to be fixed in 4.2.9, headed for a update release.