[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
> 
> Hello,
> Dimitar Yordanov checked this and he believes you are hitting
> this bug (or similar one):
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627490
> 
> It was resolved in Spacewalk 1.6.
> 
> Regards,
> Jan
> 

I upgraded to Spacewalk 1.7 (1.7.3-1.el5), spacewalk client 1.7.14-1.el5 
and rhncfg 5.10.27-1.el5, unfortunately the behaviour is unchanged:
1.7.14-1.el5

[root at oracle home]# pwd
/usr/local/home
[root at oracle home]# ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 11 12:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jul 11 12:16 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   11 Jul 11 12:16 .rhn-cfg-tmp-20608-S8vSWE -> 
/opt/oracle

[...]
{'config_channel': '0.5-global-db', 'username': '', 'encoding': '', 
'checksum': '', 'filetype': 'symlink', 'delim_start': '', 'modified': '', 
'symlink': '/opt/oracle', 'groupname': '', 'delim_end': '', 'selinux_ctx': 
'', 'filemode': '', 'file_contents': '', 'checksum_type': '', 'path': 
'/usr/local/home/oracle', 'revision': 1}]},){'cache_only': None}
[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',){}
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC up2date.listChannels
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
D: local action status: (0, 'rpm database not modified since last update 
(or package list recently updated)', {})
D: rpcServer: Calling XMLRPC registration.welcome_message




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