Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 462158
optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:06:12 EST
Description of problem: After updating yum packages yum update yum\* All these fail with a stack trace and the error: yum check-update yum --help yum list yum\* optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting option string(s): --skip-broken Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum -C list yum\* ... Installed Packages yum.noarch 3.2.19-3.fc8 installed yum-aliases.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-allowdowngrade.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-downloadonly.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-fastestmirror.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-fedorakmod.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-kernel-module.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-list-data.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-merge-conf.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-metadata-parser.i386 1.1.2-1.fc8 installed yum-presto.noarch 0.4.5-1.fc8 installed yum-priorities.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-protect-packages.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-protectbase.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-refresh-updatesd.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-security.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-skip-broken.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-tsflags.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed yum-updatesd.noarch 1:0.9-1.fc8 installed yum-utils.noarch 1.1.15-1.fc8 installed How reproducible: yum --help or other yum commands Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum --help Actual results: 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 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 84, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 184, in getOptionsConfig enabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.enableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 189, in _getConfig startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins,enabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 355, in doPluginSetup plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins, enabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 160, in __init__ self.run('config') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 176, 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/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1014, in add_option self._check_conflict(option) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py", line 989, in _check_conflict option) optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting option string(s): --skip-broken Expected results: Loaded plugins: aliases, allowdowngrade, downloadonly, fastestmirror, : fedorakmod, kernel-module, list-data, presto, priorities, : protect-packages, protectbase, security, skip-broken, tsflags Usage: yum [options] COMMAND List of Commands ... Additional info: This is a quick and dirty workaround. diff -ub /usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py{.orig,} --- /usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py.orig 2007-10-30 11:54:12.000000000 -0600 +++ /usr/lib/python2.5/optparse.py 2008-09-12 21:01:35.000000000 -0600 @@ -982,12 +982,7 @@ if conflict_opts: handler = self.conflict_handler - if handler == "error": - raise OptionConflictError( - "conflicting option string(s): %s" - % ", ".join([co[0] for co in conflict_opts]), - option) - elif handler == "resolve": + if handler == "resolve": for (opt, c_option) in conflict_opts: if opt.startswith("--"): c_option._long_opts.remove(opt) Even this works after the patch! yum -C --skip-broken list yum\*
I uncovered the following: grep -A 3 -r 'skip-broken' /usr/share/yum-cli /usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py: self.add_option("--skip-broken", action="store_true", dest="skipbroken", /usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py- help=_("skip packages with depsolving problems")) So --skip-broken is being defined in two places apparently. Here as well as above: grep -A 3 -r 'skip-broken' /usr/lib/yum-plugins -- /usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py: parser.add_option("", "--skip-broken", dest="skipbroken", /usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py- action="store_true", default=False, /usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py- help="skip packages with broken dependencies") That would explain this conflict since the option is added two places: conflicting option string(s): --skip-broken
the --skip-broken has been added to the yum, so the yum-skip-broken plugin should not be used any more. so remove it, will solve your issue. there need to added some obsoletion for the yum-skip-broken in the yum rpm, i thought it was added, but don't look to be the case.
it has been added and pushed now, I believe.