Bug 16318

Summary: preferences bug or feature
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski>
Component: gnorpmAssignee: Matt Wilson <msw>
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Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i386   
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Description Gene Czarcinski 2000-08-16 08:42:03 UTC
There is either a very nasty bug or a very undersirable (to me) feature in
gnorpm.

I started gnorpm from a terminal at which I had su'ed to root.  I then
invoked the gnorpm help and browsed through that.  I noticed that there was
a "preferences" capability.  Since I was looking how to set where gnorpm
would look for rpm's instead of /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS.  So I clicked on
the operations->preferences menu item.  That is when all hell broke loose
...

The screen started flashing panels and I got the following on the terminal
window:

LibFind-Message: downloading
http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/metadata.rdf
LibFind-Message: downloading
http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/list.rdf
LibFind-Message: downloading
http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/redhat_6.2_i386.rdf
LibFind-Message: downloading
http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/redhat_6.2_updates_i386.rdf
LibFind-Message: downloading
http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/redhat_6.2_updates_i586.rdf
...
AND LOTS MORE until I was able to ^c the silly program!

What is going on??  Not only was this complete unexpected but why is it
going out the a redhat server???

I am marking this high priority and high severity because it was so
unexpected!!

Comment 1 Gene Czarcinski 2000-08-16 08:53:37 UTC
OK, I confirmed that I can repeat this.

Also, if I disable my network connection, the preferences panel comes up. 
However, it still tried to do this crazy stuff.  I got a message on the terminal
about trying to get to www.redhat.com but that the attempt failed.

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2000-08-16 09:54:38 UTC
It is supposed to do these things. The patch I sent in puts all the messages on
the status bar of
the window which is better

Comment 3 Gene Czarcinski 2000-08-17 09:20:39 UTC
OK, so this is a "feature". But why do it when I have no intension of using
webfind?  Also, why aren't these files packaged with gnorpm?