[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Don't accidentally exit 1, when someone asks to update a non-existant pkg

[James Antill]

 This got introduced in ef6f313d5f97aa7398ac3aa04c4637d8b9da7125 from
April, 2009. It's not indended behaviour.
---
 yum/__init__.py |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yum/__init__.py b/yum/__init__.py
index 3f75528..faa4895 100644
--- a/yum/__init__.py
+++ b/yum/__init__.py
@@ -2944,7 +2944,11 @@ class YumBase(depsolve.Depsolve):
             #  Always look for available packages, it doesn't seem to do any
             # harm (apart from some time). And it fixes weird edge cases where
             # "update a" (which requires a new b) is different from "update b"
-            m =self.pkgSack.returnNewestByNameArch(patterns=[kwargs['pattern']])
+            try:
+                pats = [kwargs['pattern']]
+                m = self.pkgSack.returnNewestByNameArch(patterns=pats)
+            except Errors.PackageSackError:
+                m = []
             availpkgs.extend(m)
 
             if not availpkgs and not instpkgs:
-- 
1.6.2.5