[Yum-devel] nuke the internal xml parser?

Florian Festi ffesti at redhat.com
Thu May 31 10:40:25 UTC 2007


seth vidal wrote:
> A bug came across #yum today that was interesting.
> 
> in 3.2.0, if you don't have yum-metadata-parser installed it will
> constantly attempt to parse the xml and not ever get the dbformat
> correct b/c the internal python xml->db generator is not generating the
> db properly.
> 
> So a few choices:
> 
> 1. nuke the internal xml->db parser
> 2. make the dep on yum-m-p not just a specfile dep but make it fall over
> if it is not present on the system
> 3. fix the python xml->db parser.
> 
> which one do folks like?

Use that one:


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