Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 16318
preferences bug or feature
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:57 EDT
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!!
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.
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
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?