YUM Problem

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Tue May 29 11:53:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:19 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> 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.
> 

+1

please file it.

-sv





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