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Description of problem:
When yum is asked to install something by a virtual provide or a file, and so yum wants to pick from possible alternatives, but non of the alternatives is install-able due to conflicts, a traceback is printed.
In my reproducer below, I think the problematic case is that mariadb-connector-c requires /etc/my.cnf but the only package that provides it is mysql-libs, that conflicts with mariadb-connector-c.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.4.3-161.el7.noarch
How reproducible:
easy
Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum -y remove mysql-libs
2. yum install https://hhorak.fedorapeople.org/mariadb-connector-c-3.0.5-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
3.
Actual results:
Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.
mariadb-connector-c-3.0.5-2.el7.x86_64.rpm | 139 kB 00:00:00
Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-vh8qqq/mariadb-connector-c-3.0.5-2.el7.x86_64.rpm: mariadb-connector-c-3.0.5-2.el7.x86_64
Marking /var/tmp/yum-root-vh8qqq/mariadb-connector-c-3.0.5-2.el7.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mariadb-connector-c.x86_64 0:3.0.5-2.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: /etc/my.cnf for package: mariadb-connector-c-3.0.5-2.el7.x86_64
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 375, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 239, in main
(result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1198, in buildTransaction
(rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 893, in resolveDeps
CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing = self._resolveRequires(errors)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 1025, in _resolveRequires
(checkdep, missing, errormsgs) = self._processReq(po, dep)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 350, in _processReq
CheckDeps, missingdep = self._requiringFromTransaction(po, requirement, errormsgs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 680, in _requiringFromTransaction
rel=pkg.rel)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 5280, in update
availpkgs = self._compare_providers(availpkgs, requiringPo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 1648, in _compare_providers
bestnum = max(pkgresults.values())
ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence
Expected results:
A readable error is printed.
Additional info:
I tried that on a 1minutetip machine, but should be reproducible elsewhere as well.
It's not causing me any troubles, but I wanted to report this for the case it causes troubles to customers and might not have a reproducer.
Feel free to close it if you think this is not worth fixing.