Bug 514995

Summary:	traceback running createrepo over nfs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Component:	createrepo	Assignee:	Luke Macken <lmacken>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, lmacken, maxamillion, pfrields, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Dennis Gilmore 2009-07-31 19:21:23 UTC

while running createrepo over nfs some glitch happened and i got the following traceback.

createrepo -d .
1836/7152 - perl-Net-CIDR-Lite-0.20-5.fc11.src.rpm                              Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 233, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 207, in main
    mdgen.doPkgMetadata()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 364, in doPkgMetadata
    self.writeMetadataDocs(packages)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 527, in writeMetadataDocs
    self.primaryfile.write(po.xml_dump_primary_metadata())
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/gzip.py", line 205, in write
    self.fileobj.write( self.compress.compress(data) )
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Comment 1 seth vidal 2009-08-25 19:33:41 UTC

If you can make this happen at all:
http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/createrepo-io-error.patch

try this patch out and see if it catches the error better for you.

Comment 2 seth vidal 2009-08-25 19:48:23 UTC

Tested it here with an out-of-space IOError and it worked properly.