[Spacewalk-list] deploy config files in symlinked directory

[Jens Neu]

Dear all,

i am observing some weird behavior with my Spacewalk 1.5 when deploying 
config channels that include symlinks.

I have a config channel consisting of three items:

1) dir: /opt/$USER/
2) symlink: /usr/local/home/$USER -> /opt/$USER
3) file: /usr/local/home/$USER/.foo

intentions and pathnames are out of scope. Sticking point is, the channel 
includes a symlink as well as files that have the symlink in their 
absolute path.
When I schedule a "deploy all" action on this, it fails with:

# rhn_check -vv
[...]
[Errno 2] No such file or directory
D: Sending back response ((6,), 'Fatal error in Python code occured', {})
D: do_call packages.checkNeedUpdate ('rhnsd=1',) {}
D: local action status:  ((6,), 'Fatal error in Python code occured', {})
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message
Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'YumAction' object has no attribute 
'preconf'" in <bound method YumAction.__del__ of 
<actions.packages.YumAction object at 0x8dbb790>> ignored

Funny thing is, when I split this in two "deploy selected" actions with 1) 
and 2) first, and 3) afterwards, all works well.
But: the error also occurs not only on the initial, first deploy, but also 
when all files deployed correctly anyway. Worse, it breaks the working 
setup and leaves me with something like this:

# cd /usr/local/home
# ls -la
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 Jul  4 12:30 .rhn-cfg-tmp-18017-Lc9cJQ -> 
/opt/$USER/
#

Thoughts on this? Known limitation? Bug?


best regards from Berlin!
Jens Neu
Health Services Network Administration



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