--=-cYGRbF/gLFT23MDgGKwZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 13:28, Troy Dawson wrote: > Howdy Ho, > I reckon this is a situation that you hadn't thought of. What if you hav= e a=20 > repository, that is temporarily empty, or empty for one reason or another= . It=20 > seems like if you have an empty header.info file, things seem to fail=20 > 'unnicely' You get a >=20 > IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. > URL:=20 > ftp://yort.fnal.gov/linux/73rolling/i386/Fermi/workgroups/Farms/RPMS/head= ers/header.info >=20 does the file header.info exist at all? try putting 1 character in it. > which is the same error that you get when there isn't a repository at all= .=20 > Granted, an empty repository is almost the same as no repository, but not= quite. > Would it be possible, if there is an empty header.info file for it to say Here is the trick - I check for the content-length to determine if I've gotten something that isn't a 404 or no such file error - b/c urlretrieve - well - sucks. So a 0 length header.info won't be so happy. if we were using python2 it might be better -but I'm not switching to python2 until I've moved to rhl TNV - which won't be right away. so for right now I'd suggest putting a REALLY old rpm that can't possibly be installed in it - its a kludge but its a better kludge than some of the alternatives. my general rule is - an empty repo isn't a repo so.... -sv --=-cYGRbF/gLFT23MDgGKwZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9W/j21Aj3x2mIbMcRAjVRAKCPaw+alaT19nie+Y7dmn7aNsMP8QCgp81M e1ipRa8uZOORxvBjYTtuaLE= =nLn6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cYGRbF/gLFT23MDgGKwZ--
