#1 KYUM appears to overwrite .repo file when repo is enabled

[ClaudeJones]

When activating the testing section of the Livna repo,
the repo file is mangled. This is the livna.repo file:
[livna]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn
failovermethod=priority
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

[livna-testing]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch -
Testing
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn-testing
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn-testing
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn-testing
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn-testing
failovermethod=priority
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist-testing
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

Livna-testing is not enabled.
If I enable it, I get a fail to find repo error, and
opening the file yields the following:

[livna]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

[livna-testing]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch -
Testing
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

If I don't enable the testing repo, the access of livna
is successful. I tested the same livna.repo file with
Yumex, and it didn't have any problem with the file,
and enabling testing didn't produce errors or a mangled
repo file.

[Steffen Offermann]

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This is not really a bug. Kyum manages the repo files a bit
differently than yum or yumex in that it does not allow more
than one item for "baseurl". If you want to assign more than
one URL, you have to put them in the mirror file which can
by edited from inside kyum.

This has nothing to do with testing enabled or not. KYum
always rewrites the repo file when something gets changed.

I might change this behaviour someday, but currently I'm
afraid I won't have too much time available.

Regards,
Steffen O.

[Paul Howarth]

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This *is* really a bug because, as "man yum.conf" will
confirm, multi-baseurl repos are perfectly legitimate:

baseurl
Must be a URL to the directory where the yum
repository’s ‘repodata’ directory lives. Can be an
http://, ftp:// or file:// URL. You can specify
multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The best
way to do this is like this:
[repositoryid]
name=Some name for this repository
baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
url://server2/path/to/repository/
url://server3/path/to/repository/

If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a
repository you will find yum will ignore the
earlier ones and probably act bizarrely. Don’t do
this, you’ve been warned.

If kyum needs to manipulate repo files, it should do so in a
way that honors the published format of that file and not
mangle a perfectly valid file, which then breaks all other
programs that need to use that file. IMHO.

[Jochen Schmitt]

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This problem was complaint on Bug #190886 of
http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

this is realy a problem, becouse the user expected, that the
repo files which will be delivered by livna should work on KYum.

[Jochen Schmitt]

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I hava add the bug #1084 on bugzilla.livna.org to suggest
the use of a mirrorlist tag instead of multiple URL in a
BaseURL tag.