up2date via local dir

[Mike Chambers]

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 20:46, Adrian Likins wrote:

> seems to work for me with 4.3.8 pointing at a dir
> of fedora "testing" updates. 

I mirror rawhide on my server and use it all the time, just stopped
going all the way with the last couple of versions.

> If its a really big set of packages, it can take
> a bit of time to generate all the info (couple
> minutes maybe for ~1000 packages for ex)

I left mine on all night once and it was stuck on the same screen. 
Although, after doing a -Fvh on rawhide and updating, it did give me the
"fully updated message and no updates" screen after again trying up2date
via GUI.

> wheres the cmdline version freeze?

[root at homer rhn]# up2date -u
 
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: Rawhide...
 
Fetching rpm headers...
########################################
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1267, in ?
    sys.exit(main() or 0)
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 797, in main
    fullUpdate, dryRun=options.dry_run))
  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 1141, in batchRun
    batch.run()
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 62, in run
  File "up2dateBatch.py", line 108, in __findPackagesToUpdate
  File "packageList.py", line 580, in getPackagesToInstall
  File "packageList.py", line 609, in __skipPackages
  File "packageList.py", line 633, in __skipFiles
  File "rpmUtils.py", line 245, in checkHeaderForFileConfigExcludes
TypeError: len() of unsized object

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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