Bug 2401605

Summary: cobbler 3.3.3-3.3.7 reposync with --tries invokes underlying python issue as per gh issues 3377 (patch)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Bishop Clark <bishop>
Component: cobblerAssignee: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel9CC: brejoc, carl, kwizart, matrixfueller, ngompa13, orion
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patch to prevent type mismatch on parsing 'tries' option none

Description Bishop Clark 2025-10-04 21:01:49 UTC 
Created attachment 2108521 [details]
patch to prevent type mismatch on parsing 'tries' option

Description of problem:

using 'tries' with 'reposync' causes an error due to an underlying change in python.

# cobbler reposync --no-fail --only epel9-x86_64 --tries=1
task started: 2025-10-04_133649_Reposync_18be927557aa4c8fb827703f663c56fd
task started (id=Reposync, time=Sat Oct  4 13:36:49 2025)
start_task(reposync); event_id(2025-10-04_133649_Reposync_18be927557aa4c8fb827703f663c56fd)
reposync; ['epel9-x86_64']
hello, reposync
run, reposync, run!
Exception occurred: <class 'TypeError'>
Exception value: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
Exception Info:
!!! TASK FAILED !!!


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

# rpm -qf /etc/issue /etc/cobbler/
rocky-release-9.6-1.3.el9.noarch
cobbler-3.3.7-1.el9.noarch

(reported first in cobbler 3.3.3)

How reproducible:

Trivially, every time, as used in various tools.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install cobbler - yum install
2. add common repo - any valid repo
3. invoke cobbler reposync with --tries=1 (any number)

Actual results:

Error.


Expected results:

Standard and normal repo sync.

Additional info:

https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/3377

https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/pull/3378 - davejbax links this to a python 3.9+ change, and a change in input types.


https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/cobbler/cobbler/pull/3378.diff shows a potential fix but refactored for our setup looks like the trivial change in the attachment
Comment 1 Bishop Clark 2025-10-04 21:07:30 UTC 
Yep.  Applying the patch shows an immediate improvement in behaviour.
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-10-05 03:44:19 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-16260cc4de (cobbler-3.3.7-15.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-16260cc4de
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2025-10-05 03:48:44 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-16260cc4de (cobbler-3.3.7-15.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2025-10-05 04:07:37 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-6728220371 (cobbler-3.3.7-15.el9) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 9.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-6728220371
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2025-10-06 01:33:22 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-6728220371 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-6728220371

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2025-10-14 01:40:20 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-6728220371 (cobbler-3.3.7-15.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.