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