Bug 215450

Summary: Reference invalid variable in depSolver.py
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Matthew Booth <mbooth>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Clifford Perry <cperry>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Brandon Perkins <bperkins>
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Version: 4.4CC: cperry
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Patch fixing invalid variable reference in depSolver.py none

Description Matthew Booth 2006-11-14 01:48:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
I don't have a reproducer for this, and I don't have access to the machine I hit
it on. The problem manifested itself as a python backtrace in the code handling
obsoletes dependency resolution. I hit updating both seamonkey and wireshark
from RHEL4 U2 (ish) to RHEL4 U4 + updates. I don't have the original backtrace
either, but I did get the customer to mail the patch to me. I have done similar
updates before without hitting this problem, so there's probably something
unusual about this particular setup. I couldn't tell you what it is, though.

The code in question is very obviously bogus as it references a variable which
isn't in scope. Note that very similar code is also obviously broken at other
points in depSolver.py, but I didn't hit that and didn't fix it.

I've put severity to high because it's a total show stopper when you hit it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-4.4.69-25.i386
Comment 1 Matthew Booth 2006-11-14 01:48:13 UTC 
Created attachment 141126 [details]
Patch fixing invalid variable reference in depSolver.py
Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-04-12 01:43:07 UTC 
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