[Yum] possible bug: yum and rhn-plugin interaction

James Antill james-yum at and.org
Wed Jan 20 14:35:04 UTC 2010


"Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar at fajar.net> writes:

> I might have found a bug that is triggered when I:
> - use RHEL5.4
> - use yum 3.2.25 (not really sure when it first occur though)
> - have yum-rhn-plugin-0.5.4-13.el5, with valid redhat subscription
>
> The symptom is that simple operations like "yum list yum" failed with
> something like
>
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1561,
> in _retrieveMD
>     size=thisdata.size)
>
> The simple workaround is to remove "size=" parameters to calls to
> self._getFile in yumRepo.py.
>
> The bug does not happen (i.e. "yum list yum" works just fine with
> unmodified yum 3.2.25) if you don't have a valid redhat subscription,
> or if you disable rhn-plugin manually.
>
> Should I file this in bugzilla? If so, what category, yum or yum-rhn-plugin?

 It's already filed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529971
[Bug 529971] rhn-plugin's _getFile doesn't take a size parameter

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James Antill -- james at and.org


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