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
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