Package yum-skip-broken broken?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:59:59 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> > I got the new key and then did a "yum update yum\*" which updated several
> of
> > my yum plugins including yum-skip-broken. When I next ran yum I got the
> > following error:
> >
> > [root at hobbes richard]# yum update
> > Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, kernel-module,
> > presto,
> >               : skip-broken
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
> >     yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main
> >     errcode = main(args)
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main
> >     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
> >   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig
> >     enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins))
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 189, in
> > _getConfig
> >     startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins,enabled_plugins)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 355, in
> > doPluginSetup
> >     plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins, enabled_plugins)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 160, in
> > __init__
> >     self.run('config')
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 176, in
> run
> >     func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
> >   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py", line 110, in config_hook
> >     help="skip packages with broken dependencies")
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1014, in add_option
> >     self._check_conflict(option)
> >   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 989, in _check_conflict
> >     option)
> > optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting option
> > string(s): --skip-broken
> > ---
> >
> > Since yum was essentially broken at this point (I didn't think about
> > disabling the plugin) I did a "rpm -e yum-skip-broken" and now yum is
> > happily updating my system. Any python experts understand what happened?
>
> Is that with F9 or later? The skip-broken plugin is included with Yum
> there. As why you've had to uninstall the separate plugin package
> manually, I can't tell without looking into this myself. -ENOTIME
>
> --
> Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at fedoraproject.org>
> Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux 2.6.26.3-12.fc8
> loadavg: 1.21 1.23 1.12
>

Sorry, I should have said. This is an F8 system.

Richard
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