We have tested (or attempted to test) bug like this when Spacewalk 2.6 was to be released. This is a clone of that bug to get it re-tested on Satellite 5.8.0. In some cases bug can be completely irrelevant (in such cases I suggest to close the bug as NOTABUG), in some cases it might be wise to take the bug as a note that something changed in a given area and we might want to sanity-test that area (and mark the bug as VERIFIED with "SanityOnly" keyword) and in some cases bug might be totally relevant to Satellite.



+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1356067 +++

Description of problem:
Running spacewalk-repo-sync without a "-c" channel option causes it to fail.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Python 2.7.5
CentOS 7

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a spacewalk-repo-sync config file
2. Run "spacewalk-repo-sync -g spacewalk-repo-sync.config
3. Don't add any "-c channel" argument

Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 219, in <module>
    sys.exit(abs(main() or 0))
  File "/usr/bin/spacewalk-repo-sync", line 161, in main
    if len(options.channel_label)>0:
TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()


Expected results:
Syncing all the channels specified in the config file.

Additional info:
This bug seems to be the result of the recent enhancement to spacewalk-repo-sync to allow it to accept multiple "-c" arguments.

--- Additional comment from Jiří Dostál on 2016-07-13 08:41:47 EDT ---

spacewalk.git e3862c88b646f0d199bb6635f32863e377cef3f7

--- Additional comment from Duncan Sinclair on 2016-07-14 05:04:19 EDT ---

Sorry, must have missed that commit when I was looking yesterday.

Feel free to close this bug.

Can I suggest a 2.5.1 release to stop more people stumbling over this?

--- Additional comment from Lukáš Hellebrandt on 2016-11-15 08:26:55 EST ---

Verified with SW nightly from 2016-11-14.

Used reproducer from OP:

# cat srs.conf
{
        "no_errata":true,
        "sync_kickstart":false,
        "fail":true,
        "dry_run":false,
        "channel":{"testchan":["https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Workstation/x86_64/os/"]},
        "parent_channel":[]
}
# spacewalk-repo-sync -g srs.conf
[...]
# echo $?
0