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

[James Antill]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 16:25 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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.

 Wow ... can you test the attached patch.

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