Problem with today's "yum update"

[Mike Klinke]

I'm guessing others will run into this with this morning's updates.

"yum update" errored out and quit with the display below.  

============ yum error =============

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 139, in ?
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 130,
in buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 157,
in resolveDeps
    (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = 
self._processConflict(dep)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 351,
in _processConflict
    msg = '%s conflicts: %s' % (name,
rpmUtils.miscutils.formatRequire(needname, needversion, flags))
NameError: global name 'name' is not defined

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I filed a bug which was quickly marked as closed due to the problem 
having been fixed in the version of yum that "yum update" was going 
to download and install this morning.  I manually downloaded the 
new yum rpm and installed it.  After running the new yum I then 
received the error: 

#yum update
.........
Resolving Dependencies
Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts:  xorg-x11-base-fonts<= 
6.7.99.903-3

and after excluding "xorg-x11" the "yum update" then completed. I 
presume that simply excluding "xorg-x11" would have allowed the yum 
update with yesterday's version to complete.  Hope this helps 
someone else and I'm off to file a bug against "xorg-x11" if it 
hasn't already been done.

Regards, Mike Klinke