smart fails when founds a symlink that ponts to nothing

[Rehan Khan]

Imported: http://tracker.labix.org/issue283

Reason: Smart should handle broken symlinks in a local repository (as well as remote repositories). Alternatively it should report 'file not found' for both scenarios

further details: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration

msg1077 (view) Author: mmodem Date: 2007-01-23.22:50:23

I my local rpm-dir repository i have some symlinks, but lately one of those
symlinks wasnt pointin anymore to a package since i erase it, so when running
smart and when loading cache it outputs this error and then freezes:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interactive.py",
line 180, in callback
    exec code in globals

  File "<callback>", line 1, in ?

File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interactive.py",
line 709, in editChannels
    self.rebuildCache()

File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/gtk/interactive.py",
line 417, in rebuildCache
    self._ctrl.reloadChannels()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 375, in
reloadChannels
    self._cache.load()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/header.py", line
202, in load
    for h, offset in self.getHeaders(prog):

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/header.py", line
630, in getHeaders
    file = open(filepath)

IOError: [Errno 2] Arquivo ou diretório não
encontrado: '/mnt/ext3/linux/mandriva/mde/2007/x86_64/32bit/libalsa2-1.0.13-3.mdv2007.0mde.i586.rpm'