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Bug 1251949

Summary:	spacecmd problems with "++" in package Name (ERROR: multiple repeat)
Product:	[Community] Spacewalk	Reporter:	Klaas Demter <klaas>
Component:	Server	Assignee:	Ondrej Gajdusek <ogajduse>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	2.3	CC:	jdobes, ogajduse, tlestach
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Description Klaas Demter 2015-08-10 11:56:03 UTC

Description of problem:
I'm trying to remove a package using spacecmd and its not working


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
root@spacewalk [0] rhn # rpm -qa|grep spacecmd
spacecmd-2.3.20-1.el6.noarch


How reproducible:
# spacecmd softwarechannel_removepackages channel gcc-c++-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
INFO: Connected to https://localhost/rpc/api as admin
ERROR: multiple repeat

to make sure its no bash issue I also tried from within spacecmd
# spacecmd -u admin
Welcome to spacecmd, a command-line interface to Spacewalk.

Type: 'help' for a list of commands
      'help <cmd>' for command-specific help
      'quit' to quit

INFO: Connected to https://localhost/rpc/api as admin
spacecmd {SSM:0}> 
spacecmd {SSM:0}> softwarechannel_removepackages channel gcc-c++-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64
ERROR: multiple repeat

I also tried various ways I could think of to escape the package name but without success

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run spacecmd softwarechannel_removepackages channel gcc-c++-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64


Actual results:
ERROR: multiple repeat

Expected results:
delete Package

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jan Dobes 2015-09-09 15:32:50 UTC

There is probably some double escaping in code.

# spacecmd softwarechannel_removepackages channel gcc-c\\+\\+-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64

This should work.

Comment 2 Ondrej Gajdusek 2016-09-06 12:20:41 UTC

repaired in commit f1d48f0702c010eca967d727eda3887d11270745 in spacewalk/master

Comment 3 Ondrej Gajdusek 2016-11-10 10:11:03 UTC

This MULTILPE REPEAT error has been raised in due to that the function expects regexes as input. Actually here is no way to fix it by logical way. User must escape the regexp himself as in many tools which are using regexps.

Comment 4 Ondrej Gajdusek 2016-11-10 10:12:41 UTC

Reverted in spacewalk.git 71aff902e6464d94dc7775c634a2139c156c945b.

Comment 5 Eric Herget 2017-09-28 18:11:47 UTC

This BZ closed some time during 2.5, 2.6 or 2.7.  Adding to 2.7 tracking bug.

Comment 6 Tomas Lestach 2019-03-12 11:57:03 UTC

[root@sputnik ~]# spacecmd softwarechannel_removepackages tml-channel 'gcc-c\\+\\+-4.8.2-16.el7.x86_64'
INFO: Connected to https://sputnik.brq.redhat.com/rpc/api as tlestach
Packages
--------
gcc-c++-4.8.2-16.el7.x86_64

Remove these packages [y/N]: y
[root@sputnik ~]#