On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:04:19PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> you're added to it - and now you can add other people to the editgroup
> for yum files.
Excellent. Will try not to cause too much trouble.
Back to the original thing.... would it be useful to do something like the
following? I know the compare-exception-value-string is kludgy/bad, but if
it were to happen to break, that wouldn't be too bad, since it would just
fail to match and then print out the exception value....
--- /usr/bin/yum 2005-07-08 10:18:43.000000000 -0400
+++ yum 2005-07-12 15:17:58.000000000 -0400
@@ -3,10 +3,17 @@
try:
import yum
except ImportError:
- print >> sys.stderr, "The yum libraries do not seem to be available \
-on your system for this version of python ", sys.version
- print >> sys.stderr, "Please make sure the package you used to install \
-yum was built for your install of python."
+ if str(sys.exc_value) == 'No module named yum':
+ print >> sys.stderr, "The yum libraries do not seem to be available \
+on your system for this version of Python ", sys.version
+ print >> sys.stderr, "Please make sure the package you used to install \
+yum was built for your install of Python."
+ else:
+ print >> sys.stderr, "There was an error importing one of the Python \
+modules required to run yum:"
+ print >> sys.stderr, " " + str(sys.exc_value)
+ print >> sys.stderr, "Please install a package which provides this \
+module, and try again."
sys.exit(1)
sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/share/yum-cli')
--
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