From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020205 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. Additional info:
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.