Re: Package yum-skip-broken broken?

["Richard Shaw" <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:59:59 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:

> I got the new key and then did a "yum update yum\*" which updated several of
> my yum plugins including yum-skip-broken. When I next ran yum I got the
> following error:
>
> [root@hobbes richard]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kernel-module,
> presto,
>               : skip-broken
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
>     errcode = main(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main
>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig
>     enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 189, in
> _getConfig
>     startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins,enabled_plugins)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 355, in
> doPluginSetup
>     plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins, enabled_plugins)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 160, in
> __init__
>     self.run('config')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 176, in run
>     func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
>   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py", line 110, in config_hook
>     help="skip packages with broken dependencies")
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1014, in add_option
>     self._check_conflict(option)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 989, in _check_conflict
>     option)
> optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting option
> string(s): --skip-broken
> ---
>
> Since yum was essentially broken at this point (I didn't think about
> disabling the plugin) I did a "rpm -e yum-skip-broken" and now yum is
> happily updating my system. Any python experts understand what happened?

Is that with F9 or later? The skip-broken plugin is included with Yum
there. As why you've had to uninstall the separate plugin package
manually, I can't tell without looking into this myself. -ENOTIME

--
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.26.3-12.fc8
loadavg: 1.21 1.23 1.12

Sorry, I should have said. This is an F8 system.

Richard

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