[et-mgmt-tools] keyError while attempting "repo remove" and "repo rename"

[Michael DeHaan]

Hsing-Tsu Lai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying out cobbler in hoping to use it to manage the rhel5 
> packages locally.
>
> In my experiments, I added a repo then tried to remove or rename it
> both failed with "KeyError". For example:

What version of cobbler are you using?

>
>
> # cobbler repo remove --name=rhel5
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 719, 
> in main
>    BootCLI(sys.argv).run()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 115, 
> in run
>    self.relay_args(self.args[1:], self.commands['toplevel'])
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> 545, in relay_args
>    commands[args[0]](args[1:])
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line 699, 
> in repo
>    return self.relay_args(args, self.commands['repo'])
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> 545, in relay_args
>    commands[args[0]](args[1:])
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> 320, in repo_remove
>    return self.__generic_remove(args,"repo","name",self.api.repos)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> 305, in __generic_remove
>    return self.apply_args(args,commands,on_ok)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> 530, in apply_args
>    input_routines[key](value)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler.py", line
> 302, in <lambda>
>    "--%s" % alias2 : lambda(a):  collection_fn().remove(a,
> with_delete=self.api.sync_flag)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/collection_repos.py",
> line 59, in remove
>    self._run_triggers(self.listing[name],
> "/var/lib/cobbler/triggers/delete/repo/post/*")
> KeyError: 'rhel5'
>
>
> The repo was added by "cobbler repo add --name=rhel5
> --mirror=rhn://rhel-x86_64-server-5". Later, I managed to clean it up
> by "rpm -e cobbler" and removed all the residue files.

That's a bit overkill.   You could have removed the definition from 
/var/lib/cobbler/repos even
with the above error.

>
> any pointers why I am getting such errors are much appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Hsing-Tsu
>
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