On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:28 -0600, Brian Millett wrote: > Seth, having added > [pre-extras] > name=Pre Extras > baseurl=http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/$basearch/ > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > > I looked to see what was available, then tried to update. > > Results follow: > ..... > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: aalib = %{epoch}:1.4.0-0.rc5.2 for package: > aalib-devel > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 7, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main > (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 219, in > buildTransaction > (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 187, in > resolveDeps > (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 271, in > _processReq > CheckDeps, missingdep = self._requiringFromTransaction(requiringPkg, > requirementTuple, errormsgs) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 420, in > _requiringFromTransaction > provSack = self.whatProvides(needname, needflags, needversion) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 65, in > whatProvides > (r_e, r_v, r_r) = rpmUtils.miscutils.stringToVersion(version) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpmUtils/miscutils.py", line 307, > in stringToVersion > epoch = string.atol(verstring[:i]) > File "/usr/lib/python2.4/string.py", line 419, in atol > return _long(s, base) > ValueError: invalid literal for long(): %{epoch} > Looks like garbage in the epoch field of aalib. I'll take a look at both yum and the pkg. could you open a bug on this? Thanks -sv