yum error of extras

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:28 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:
> Seth, having added
> [pre-extras]
> name=Pre Extras
> baseurl=http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/$basearch/
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> I looked to see what was available, then tried to update.
> 
> Results follow:
> .....
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: aalib = %{epoch}:1.4.0-0.rc5.2 for package:
> aalib-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}
> 

Looks like garbage in the epoch field of aalib.

I'll take a look at both yum and the pkg.

could you open a bug on this?

Thanks
-sv