Bug 674468

Summary:	yum-changelog should depend on python-dateutil
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Travers Carter <tcarter>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	5.5
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Description Travers Carter 2011-02-02 02:40:21 UTC

Description of problem:
After a successful "yum install yum-changelog" the yum changelog command fails with the error "Dateutil module not available, so can't parse dates".  Manually running "yum install python-dateutil" resolves the problem

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-changelog 1.1.16-13.el5_4.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Ensure python-dateutil isn't installed
2. yum install yum-changelog
3. yum changelog <package-name>
  
Actual results:
"Dateutil module not available, so can't parse dates"

Expected results:
Changelog for the selected package should be display

Additional info:
Appears to have been reported some time ago against CentOS v5
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3713

Comment 1 James Antill 2011-02-04 15:18:42 UTC

 python-dateutil isn't in RHEL-5, so yum can't depend on it. There is some functionality that works without it, and it tells you to install it for the functionality it needs.

 The command is used by one of:

yum changelog <number of changelog entries>    <packages>...
yum changelog <date of oldest changelog entry> <packages>...

...Eg.

yum changelog 2 zsh