yum problem = catch-22

[Hans Christian Studt]

Today FC2T1 was updated to yum-2.0.5.20040229-1.

The problem is that now yum does not work, which mean I can not receive a fixed version of yum (catch-22).

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#rpm -qa | grep yum
yum-2.0.5.20040229-1
------------------------------------------------------------------
#yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 253, in main
    clientStuff.download_headers(HeaderInfo, nulist)
  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 919, in download_headers
    cachedbdict = returnCacheDBHeaders(nulist)
  File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 901, in returnCacheDBHeaders
    mi = cachedb.dbMatch()
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'cachedb' referenced before assignment
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/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py
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def returnCacheDBHeaders(nulist):
    returndict = {}
    if conf.usecachedb and os.path.exists(conf.cachedb):
        rpm.addMacro("_dbpath", "/")
        cachedb = rpmUtils.Rpm_Ts_Work(dbPath=conf.cachedb)
        cachedb.setVSFlags(-1)

mi = cachedb.dbMatch()
    for h in mi:
        hdrobj = rpmUtils.Header_Work(h)
        (n,e,v,r,a) = hdrobj.nevra()
        e = hdrobj.fixedEpoch()
        if (n, a) in nulist:
            returndict[(n, a, e, v, r)] = hdrobj
    del mi
    del cachedb
    rpm.delMacro("_dbpath")

return returndict

def download_headers(HeaderInfo, nulist):
    total = len(nulist)
"/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py" 1343L, 54495C                 914,1         67%
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[Marcus Schuetz]

Hans Christian Studt wrote:
> Today FC2T1 was updated to yum-2.0.5.20040229-1.
>
> The problem is that now yum does not work, which mean I can not receive a fixed version of yum (catch-22).

Check your 
/var/cache/yum/whatever_your_development_directory_is_called/packages/ 
directory and check if you still have  in there and upgrade with rpm 
-Uvh --oldpackage yum-2.0.5.20040224-2.noarch.rpm .

HTH

:: Marcus

[Peter Whysall]

On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:54 +0100, Hans Christian Studt wrote:
> Today FC2T1 was updated to yum-2.0.5.20040229-1.
>
> The problem is that now yum does not work, which mean I can not receive a fixed version of yum (catch-22).

For those who have hit this problem (and, like me, didn't have the old
yum RPM in the package cache), you can download the yum 2.0.5 RPM from:

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml

Hope this helps,

Peter.

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:25:20AM +0000, Peter Whysall wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 20:54 +0100, Hans Christian Studt wrote:
> > Today FC2T1 was updated to yum-2.0.5.20040229-1.
> >
> > The problem is that now yum does not work, which mean I can not receive a fixed version of yum (catch-22).
>
> For those who have hit this problem (and, like me, didn't have the old
> yum RPM in the package cache), you can download the yum 2.0.5 RPM from:
>
> http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml

It does.

One would hope that up2date and yum do not change within 48 hours
of each other in the development process.

Call one chicken and the other egg then one can bootstrap or repair the other.