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Bug 886589 - modifyrepo should fail for unsupported compress-type
Summary: modifyrepo should fail for unsupported compress-type
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: createrepo
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Valentina Mukhamedzhanova
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-12 16:08 UTC by Karel Srot
Modified: 2017-12-06 11:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-12-06 11:21:48 UTC
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Description Karel Srot 2012-12-12 16:08:33 UTC 
Description of problem:

when modifyrepo is executed with unsupported value in compress-type option it silently uses the 'best' one. This is strange and different from createrepo behavior.

# createrepo --compress-type foo .
Compression foo not available: Please choose from: gz, bz2
# createrepo --compress-type gz .

Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
# touch updateinfo.xml
# modifyrepo --compress-type foo updateinfo.xml repodata
Wrote: /tmp/repo/repodata/updateinfo.xml.bz2
           type = updateinfo
       location = repodata/d3dda84eb03b9738d118eb2be78e246106900493c0ae07819ad60815134a8058-updateinfo.xml.bz2
       checksum = d3dda84eb03b9738d118eb2be78e246106900493c0ae07819ad60815134a8058
      timestamp = 1355328406.53
  open-checksum = e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
Wrote: /tmp/repo/repodata/repomd.xml


Moreover, available options are not documented in modifyrepo manpage.
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Comment 1 James Antill 2013-04-16 20:16:01 UTC 
commit d10d518d16d97fdce00676d57461e089982d613d
Author: James Antill <james>
Date:   Tue Apr 16 16:15:19 2013 -0400
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 00:10:10 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 5 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 11:21:48 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here:

http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle

This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL:

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