Bug 559164
| Summary: | Bad patch backport, uses yumdb which isn't in RHEL-5 == crash on reinstall of unavailable packages | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Michal Nowak <mnowak> |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | James Antill <james.antill> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Petr Sklenar <psklenar> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.5 | CC: | ddumas, jhutar, ohudlick, psklenar |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Regression |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | yum-3.2.22-24.el5 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-03-30 08:30:12 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Yep, thanks for finding this, bad backport ... the RHEL-5 yum doesn't have yumdb_info, yet.
Easy fix, just remove those three lines:
if 'from_repo' in ipkg.yumdb_info:
xmsg = ipkg.yumdb_info.from_repo
xmsg = _(' (from %s)') % xmsg
...I did a quick grep and that's the only hit I get for yumdb.
yum-3.2.22-24.el5 is building as: http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=2229592 Works fine. Tested. Thanks, James! start with verification of this bug, and start writing rhts test An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0254.html |
Description of problem: [root@altix4 smoke-test]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Cleaning up Everything [root@altix4 smoke-test]# yum reinstall coreutils.i386 Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Setting up Reinstall Process rhts-custom1 | 1.1 kB 00:00 rhts-custom1/primary | 6.0 kB 00:00 rhts-custom1 32/32 rhts-custom2 | 1.1 kB 00:00 rhts-custom2/primary | 7.3 kB 00:00 rhts-custom2 36/36 rhts-custom3 | 1.1 kB 00:00 rhts-custom3/primary | 816 kB 00:00 rhts-custom3 2292/2292 rhts-custom4 | 1.1 kB 00:00 rhts-custom4/primary | 8.8 kB 00:00 rhts-custom4 35/35 rhts-noarch | 951 B 00:00 rhts-noarch/primary | 603 kB 00:00 rhts-noarch 3757/3757 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 178, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 349, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 1008, in doCommand return base.reinstallPkgs(extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 691, in reinstallPkgs if 'from_repo' in ipkg.yumdb_info: File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 71, in __getattr__ val = val[varname] # a lot we should preload at __init__. KeyError: 'unknown header tag' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.2.22-23.el5 [ia64] coreutils-5.97-23.el5_4.1 [i386] coreutils-5.97-23.el5_4.1 How reproducible: ia64 box w/ few i?86 packages installed from i386 repo, which is currently not available (but that does not matter, even when available via cp /etc/yum.repos.d/rhts-custom.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rhts-custom2.repo sed -i -e 's/ia64/i386/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/rhts-custom2.repo it fails too).