On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:14 -0800, Tom London wrote:
> yum update
> <<snip>>
> ---> Package libgcc.i386 0:3.4.3-11 set to be updated
> ---> Package gcc.i386 0:3.4.3-11 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libselinux = %{epoch}:1.19.3-3 for package:
> libselinux-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}
>
That error has been fixed in cvs - but it's also a bug in the package.
-sv