[Yum] f9 yum option --skip-broken: conflicting option string !

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Mon May 19 07:10:41 UTC 2008


David Timms wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 23:42 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>>> Hi, what do you make of this:
>>>
>>> # yum -d 10 list
>>> Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin
>>> Loading "skip-broken" plugin
>>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, skip-broken
>>> Running "config" handler for "skip-broken" plugin
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>>>      yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
>>>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 241, in user_main
>>>      errcode = main(args)
>>>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 96, in main
>>>      base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>>>    File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 182, in getOptionsConfig
>>>      disabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.disableplugins))
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 178, 
>>> in _getConfig
>>>      startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins)
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 340, 
>>> in doPluginSetup
>>>      plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins)
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 159, 
>>> in __init__
>>>      self.run('config')
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 175, 
>>> in run
>>>      func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
>>>    File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py", line 110, in config_hook
>>>      help="skip packages with broken dependencies")
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1014, in add_option
>>>      self._check_conflict(option)
>>>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 989, in _check_conflict
>>>      option)
>>> optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting 
>>> option string(s): --skip-broken
>>>
>>> In any case that is the result, no matter what normal parameters I 
>>> supply, or even if I leave blank that would normally show the --help 
>>> gives the same error.
>>>
>>> Can't have blown my fresh f9 install {original /home directory} 
>>> already could I ?
>>>
>>> Happy to create a bug if it's not my fumbling ?
>>
>> rpm -e yum-skip-broken
> Aye, right you are.
> I installed my apps metapackage {orginally for f7,8} that requires 
> y-s-b. Interesting that PackageKit could still do updates while yum was 
> incapacitated.

the problem with '--skip-broken' only hits yum-cli, not yum api 
applications like the PackageKit yum-backend.

Tim



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