[Yum-devel] yum 3.2.24-5 now aborts on some extra RPM errors?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Previously (yum 3.2.24-4) yum ignored the case where some package
fails to unpack, as in here:

  Installing     : filesystem-2.4.30-2.fc12.x86_64                        3/132 
Error unpacking rpm package filesystem-2.4.30-2.fc12.x86_64
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /proc: cpio: utime

[but yum continues anyway]

However with the latest yum 3.2.24-5 it fails with this obscure stack
trace, which we assume is related to the above error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 377, in callback
    self._instCloseFile(  bytes, total, h )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/rpmtrans.py", line 452, in _instCloseFile
    state = self.base.history.txmbr2state(txmbr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/history.py", line 280, in txmbr2state
    state = _stcode2sttxt[txmbr.output_state]
KeyError: 100
error: python callback <bound method RPMTransaction.callback of <yum.rpmtrans.RPMTransaction instance at 0x3ae68c0>> failed, aborting!

We'd like it to continue running in this case (or at least, for that
to be made configurable) because the particular error here is
inconsequential for us.

This is the apparent patch between the two versions:

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/yum/yum-HEAD.patch?r1=1.32&r2=1.33&view=patch

Lots of changes to do with the new history feature, and some changes
to error handling, but I can't see anything obvious that would cause
the above stack trace ...

Rich.

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