[Yum-devel] possible leak in yum.YumBase()?

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 14:50 +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While tracing a memory leak in a simple python program using the yum
> API, I find a possible memory leak in the YumBase constructor;
> apparently a reference to the newly constructed YumBase instance is
> created in yum.packages.base by yum.depsolve.Depsolve.__init__(), and
> this reference forbid the YumBase destructor to be called on said
> instance.

 Wow ... this is old!

26800603 (Seth Vidal      2004-07-08 07:27:05 +0000   68)     def __init__(self):
26800603 (Seth Vidal      2004-07-08 07:27:05 +0000   69)         packages.base = self
fe3a19ac (Seth Vidal      2007-02-22 03:47:22 +0000   70)         self._ts = None
63ca92c8 (Seth Vidal      2007-02-22 19:57:50 +0000   71)         self._tsInfo = None
1b368a97 (Seth Vidal      2004-09-08 05:03:36 +0000   72)         self.dsCallback = None

...as far as I know it's not used anywhere, "packages.base" only matches
that single line and "base" is not used in the packages module.
 Should be able to just delete that line.