Clone By Date maximum recursion depth exceeded

Issue

• Execution of spacewalk-clone-by-date results in a recursive loop during dependency checking:

 File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 558, in process_deps
    self.__dep_solve(added_nevras)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 506, in __dep_solve
    self.process_deps(dep_results)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 551, in process_deps
    added_nevras = added_nevras + cloner.process_deps(needed)
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 683, in process_deps
    self.reset_new_pkgs()
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 608, in reset_new_pkgs
    for pkg in self.remote_api.list_packages(self.to_label))
  File "/usr/share/rhn/utils/cloneByDate.py", line 858, in list_packages
    self.auth_token, label)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
    verbose=self.__verbose
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1228, in request
    h = self.make_connection(host)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1414, in make_connection
    return HTTPS(host, None, **(x509 or {}))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1160, in __init__
    cert_file, strict))
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1127, in __init__
    HTTPConnection.__init__(self, host, port, strict, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 681, in __init__
    self._set_hostport(host, port)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/httplib.py", line 710, in _set_hostport
    if host and host[0] == '[' and host[-1] == ']':
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp