Yesterday I updated my rawhide machine. A new version (1.1.11-1.fc9.noarch) of yum-skip-broken was installed. $ yum -y update Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, fastestmirror, skip-broken 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 237, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 91, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 180, in getOptionsConfig disabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.disableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 168, in _getConfig startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 350, in doPluginSetup plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 156, in __init__ self.run('config') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 172, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py", line 110, in config_hook help="skip packages with broken dependencies") File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1014, in add_option self._check_conflict(option) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 989, in _check_conflict option) optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting option string(s): --skip-broken Removing yum-skip-broken cures the problem. - Gilboa
yum-skip-broken is obsoleted by yum >= 3.2.10 Just erase yum-skip-broken, yum >= 3.2.10 contains a better '--skip-broken' feature then the yum-skip-broken plugin.
I know. I checked the yum.spec/CVS. However, I wonder why yum didn't remove the yum-skip-broken when it was updated. - Gilboa
YUMBUGDAY
We have a conflict in the upstream .spec