Bug 63578

Summary:	up2date misinterprets missing semi-colon in pkgSkipList
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	David M. Cook <dcook>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	cturner, gafton, mihai.ibanescu, pjones, taw
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Description David M. Cook 2002-04-15 19:57:11 UTC

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Description of problem:
If the semi-colon at the end of the pkgSkipList goes missing for some reason,
up2date seems to treat this in the same way as

pkgSkipList=*;

I would assume this would be a problem with removeSkipList and maybe other
semi-colon terminated entries as well.  I don't know how the semi-colons go
missing in customers' up2date configs, but it happens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.7.77-7.x.2


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Remove ; from pkgSkipList or fileSkipList in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
2.up2date -l
3.
	

Actual Results:  All available updates are show as being skipped.

Expected Results:  Either an error message about the missing semi-colon, or
ignoring an unterminated skiplist. 

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Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-01-20 22:28:19 UTC

well, ugh.  That more or less breaks the fileformat.

the ; indicates "this is a list", otherwise it's just
a string. 

Leaving that ; off in the config file is a broken config file.