Bug 678301 - yum repository parsing doesn't deal with mangled repo file gracefully
Summary: yum repository parsing doesn't deal with mangled repo file gracefully
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Seth Vidal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-17 14:03 UTC by Rahul Sundaram
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-02-17 17:34:43 UTC
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2011-02-17 14:03:30 UTC 
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Refer the following for details

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-February/392656.html
Comment 1 seth vidal 2011-02-17 17:02:34 UTC 
this is an iniparse issue at the lowest level.
here's the details:

import iniparse
c = iniparse.ConfigParser()
c.read('/etc/yum.repos.d/broken-config.repo')

MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /etc/yum.repos.d/broken-config.repo, line: 1
' [empty1]\n'



right now yum is treating a broken repo file as a fatal error, maybe it should not - looking at the history on this code.
Comment 2 seth vidal 2011-02-17 17:34:43 UTC 
You know what - I take that back - we have a place to step around this specific error in yum.

I've sent a patch upstream to yum to handle this specific issue.
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