[Yum-devel] yumdownloader (1.1.2/3.1.6) with --installroot

[Tim Lauridsen]

Charlie Brady wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Charlie Brady wrote:
>
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
>>
>> This patch to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py fixed 
>> that little problem:
>>
>>    def __eq__(self, other):
>> #         if other == None:
>> #             return False
>>         if comparePoEVR(self, other) == 0 and self.arch == other.arch 
>> and
>>         self.name == other.name:
>>             return True
>>         return False
>
> This is still a problem in yum 3.1.6, but I notice fixed in CVS.
>
>> So now I'm trying again, but with yum-3.1.6 and yum-install-1.1.2. I 
>> now find that yumdownloader requires various things to already exist 
>> in the installroot which it was happy and able to create in the 
>> earlier version. Specifically it expects the installroot to already 
>> include an rpmdb and cache directories for each repository (both of 
>> which I've found workarounds for), and then also demands to find a 
>> pre-cached repomd.xml file per repository.
>>
>> Are these intentional changes of behaviour, or are they regressions 
>> which I can help to debug?
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> ...
>         self.conf.uid = os.geteuid()
> ->        if self.conf.uid != 0:
> ->           self.conf.cache = 1
> ...
>
> After commenting out that code, and making the following changes to 
> yumdownloader, I find that latest releases do indeed do a *much* 
> better job at resolving dependencies.
>
> --- yumdownloader-1.1.2.orig    2007-04-12 13:56:36.000000000 -0400
> +++ yumdownloader-1.1.2 2007-04-12 16:40:20.000000000 -0400
> @@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
>
>  from urlparse import urljoin
>
> +from urlgrabber.progress import TextMeter
> +import shutil
> +
>  class YumDownloader(YumUtilBase):
>      NAME = 'yumdownloader'
>      VERSION = '1.0'
>
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Thanks, i will add you changes to yumdownloader in yum-utils- 1.1.x.

Tim