Description of problem: While installing gcc and having glibc* on the pkgSkipList, up2date throws an exception instead of saying what the real problem is. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): leifur:-bash# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3) leifur:-bash# rpm -q up2date up2date-4.4.67-4 How reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install system without devel tools 2. put glibc* in PkgSkipList in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date 3. attempt to install gcc Actual results: Should cause up2date to throw an exception Expected results: up2date should output missing dep, on skip list. Additional info:
This should be the right behavior to not proceed, unless the user uses --force. Maybe throwing an exception is not a good behavior, a friendly error message would be sufficient.
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