[FIXED] Re: Dell Repo Problem / Error

[Michael E Brown]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:26:00PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:21:33PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:15:43PM -0600, Sturgis, Grant wrote:
> > > http://repo//repo/hardware/system.ven_0x1028.dev_0x01b2/el4.x86_64/headers/header.info 
> > > - DIRECT/repo text/html
> > 
> > Yeah, that looks bogus. Fix that and your problems should go away. With
> > my previous experience with squid (almost 99.9999% positive, btw, except
> > when it comes to repositories), I am pretty sure this is a squid
> > problem.
> > 
> > Can you do me a favor and send me your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file
> > to be absolutely sure? I dont even need the whole thing: 
> >     # grep dell-hardware /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources 
> > should do fine.

So, this turns out to be *NOT* a squid problem, but rather a likely
urllib or up2date problem. It looks like up2date is mis-parsing urls
when they have double slashes in them. I have 'fixed' all of the mirror
scripts (the software/mirrors.pl, hardware/mirrors.pl, and fwupdate.com
mirrors.pl) to cleanse the path so that they never return double
slashes.

I suspect that this problem only manifests on proxy setups, otherwise my
testing would have uncovered this much earlier.

My thanks to Grant for sending me the necessary data to diagnose this
and get the fix.
--
Michael