YUM Problem

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Tue May 29 08:19:13 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 12:13 -0700, Steve G wrote:
> >> It looks like the @DISTNAME@ is causing the problem. The routine 
> >> thinks we're specifying a user name instead of expanding a meta variable.
> >>
> >> I installed F7T4 and have been tracking rawhide. Am I missing 
> >> something? Any suggestions on how to fix it?
> >
> >That got me looking in the right place, and it wasn't a Fedora problem 
> >at all. It was a 3rd party repo issue. Sorry about that.
> 
> Do you think its proper for yum to crash with a traceback or catch the problem
> and print a message about why it can't update?

No, and neither would the yum developers - file a bug in the correct
location - either upstream yum bugzilla  or our own.

Paul




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