mrepo rhnget: TypeError's

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:29:20AM -0700, Ben Kevan wrote:
> So I went to go run mrepo -guvv today, and I got these errors which surprised
> me:
> 
> rhnget: TypeError: Error downloading package ICAClient-8.0-1.RHEL_4.1.i386.rpm
> from rhel-i386-as-4-extras. Skipping.
> 'NoneType' object is not callable
> rhnget: TypeError: Error downloading package RealPlayer-10.0.9-2.i386.rpm from
> rhel-i386-as-4-extras. Skipping.
> 'NoneType' object is not callable
> 
> (quite a few more, those are just some of the packages that gave that).
> 
> I haven't checked to see if the packages actually downloaded or not, but all
> the packages seem to be "proprietery" packages (ie java, ipw packages,
> acrobat etc). Has anything changed in the way rhn distributes these types of
> packages? if so, is there a way to get them to download using mrepo (this is
> me assuming they didn't download correctly.. which i'll check after downloads
> are completed)?
> 
> Ben

You might try rpmforge's tools mailing list.  The mrepo author is
there.  I get these errors as well -- I haven't dug into them yet
however, and it often seems if I just re-run mrepo they go away.

Anyways, not too helpful I'm afraid. :)

Ray