Package yum-skip-broken broken?

[Richard Shaw]

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
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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?

Thanks,
Richard
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