[issue227] smart does not appear to handle duplicate names in channels

[Mikus Grinbergs at Labix Tracker]

New submission from Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com>:

Using smart with SuSE.  At the time of SuSE 9.x, I had several channels
identifying apt-rpm repositories, each with a different baseurl, but all with
the *same* string in the "name" field of the channel entry.  Back then, this all
worked.  I've more or less copied those entries to my latest systems (making
sure that they point to the *applicable* (e.g., 10.0) repositories].

On a system with SUSE 10.0 and the latest smart (from guru), I looked at the
output of 'smart --shell', then 'update'.  For the base component repository,
smart fetched the 'release' file (and showed me the progress bar as it was doing
it.  But for the other "type = apt-rpm" channel entries, all that smart  output
to the console was the message: "Fetching information for 'SUSE Linux packages
apt-rpm repository on ftp.gwdg.de' -- WITHOUT the specific filename, and without
the progress bar.

I'm left with the conclusion that smart failed to access all but one repository
that was "type = apt-rpm".  I don't know if that was because smart has a problem
with apt-rpm, or with multiple entries having the same "name =" string.  [I have
duplicate names only with apt-rpm channels.]

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messages: 775
nosy: mikus
priority: bug
project: smart
status: unread
title: smart does not appear to handle duplicate names in channels

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