yum fails on today's rawhide

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:14 -0800, Tom London wrote:
> yum update
> <<snip>>
> ---> Package libgcc.i386 0:3.4.3-11 set to be updated
> ---> Package gcc.i386 0:3.4.3-11 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libselinux = %{epoch}:1.19.3-3 for package:
> libselinux-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}
> 

That error has been fixed in cvs - but it's also a bug in the package.

-sv