Yum depressed by changes

[Andy Green]

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On Monday 06 September 2004 15:09, seth vidal wrote:

> > I moved /var/cache/yum out of the way and started over, but after a dozen
> > or so packages it fell over just the same.

> Filing this in bugzilla would be appreciated. and running with yum -d 4,
> would help as well.

Sorry Seth, I moved on and that problem is gone.    What I did was move to the 
redhat repo, it tried to download a new primary.xml.gz but the download 
aborted partway the first time....  (note it wrongly jumped to 100%)...

primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 144 kB    02:01
developmen: ######                                             
422/3513//var/cache/yum/development/primary.xml.gz:25847: parser error : 
AttValue: ' expected
      <rpm:entry name="perl(
                            ^
//var/cache/yum/development/primary.xml.gz:25847: parser error : attributes 
construct error
      <rpm:entry name="perl(
                            ^
//var/cache/yum/development/primary.xml.gz:25847: parser error : Couldn't find 
end of Start Tag entry
      <rpm:entry name="perl(
                            ^

Killed

I tried again and this time it succeeded, downloaded some stuff and then

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 135, in ?
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 90, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 97, in 
buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 160, in 
resolveDeps
    (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processConflict(dep)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 346, in 
_processConflict
    msg = '%s conflicts: %s' % (name, 
rpmUtils.miscutils.formatRequire(needname, needversion, flags))
NameError: global name 'name' is not defined


I already saw someone met this and updated yum to get around it.  So I did

[root at fastcat ~]# yum update yum
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo:  development
repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
developmen: ################################################## 3513/3513
Excluding Packages
Excluding Packages from Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Resolving Dependencies

Dependencies Resolved
                [u] yum.noarch 0:2.1.3-1 - user
Is this ok [y/N]: y
yum-2.1.3-1.noarch.rpm    100% |=========================| 159 kB    00:01
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
yum 100 % done 1/2
Completing update for yum  - 2/2
Complete!


So that was good.

The I got this on the next yum update
....
Error: xorg-x11-font-utils conflicts:  xorg-x11-base-fonts<= 6.7.99.903-3

So I did this...

[root at fastcat ~]# yum --exclude=xorg-x11-font-utils update

... and that seems to have got me working, all the non-excluded packages are 
installing now.

BTW despite these complicated steps the new yum is obviously a major advance 
over the old one, keep up the good work.

- -Andy

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