[Yum-devel] [PATCH] dbus-python is very picky

[Bill Nottingham]

Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:12 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Fixes GetUpdateInfo() barfing with dbus-python-0.80 or later.
> 
> How does it barf?

dbus wants to know the type of arguments that are being passed. When
the list is empty, it tracebacks, because it can't figure out what it's
a list of.

> Not that I can see anything wrong (other than I'm not
> sure how far back the in_signature and out_signature stuff goes with
> dbus-python)

According to upstream, it's been around since October 2005, before d-bus 0.61.

> , but things seem to work fine for me here without the patch
> and dbus-python-0.80.2

Try running GetUpdateInfo() when there are no updates.

Bill