[Yum-devel] Yum bug (listed here as I can't create a ticket in track)

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 14:43 +0200, olivier.lahaye1 at free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry to post this here but eventhough I've registered my account in yum track system, I'm unable to find a place to post a new ticket, so I'm doing this here.
> 
> I'm working on OSCAR Cluster tools and one of its tool called yume is using yum. Unfortunately, since CentOS-6, I see a false-positive warning.
> 
> I've been able to identify the problem.
> 
> 
> yum install -c yum_cmd_file.txt --installroot / my_package
> 
> Will result in the following false-positive warning:
> Ignored option -c (probably due to merging -yc != -y -c)
> 
> 1st of all, the -c option is not ignored (otherwize, the oscar specific repos would have been ignored and the strace shown that the file is parsed)
> 2nd, there is no y option sticked to the -c option.....

 Interesting, I did a fix upstream:

http://yum.baseurl.org/gitweb?p=yum.git;a=commitdiff;h=4a82638b521254c67618499f7b7f0178aa6ea700

...and adding it to rhel-6.4 might still be possible, if you open a BZ
(esp. if you are a RH customer).

 This should be pretty easy to apply locally though.