On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 09:14, Piero Calucci wrote: > yum-arch dies when it tries to read a file that is not actually a rpm. > This happend to me running yum-arch on a mirror of rh71 (yes, I know > it's old) where some rpms are in fact missing, and you find instead a > sort of acces denied message from the master server "masqueraded" as > rpm: > > > > [root@ring updates]# yum-arch -z `pwd`/7.1 > > <many lines/> > > Digesting rpms 84 % complete: php-imap-4.0.6-9.7.1.i386.rpmTraceback > (innermost last): > File "/usr/sbin/yum-arch", line 23, in ? > pullheaders.main() > File "pullheaders.py", line 221, in main > File "pullheaders.py", line 55, in genhdrs > TypeError: unsubscriptable object I should probably catch this error and exit more gracefully. But what did you expect to happen? I think it should be taken as read that an rpm needs to be an rpm :) however, I'll look at where it occurs for catching the exception if rpm can't open the file so a better error can be issued. -sv
