Dell's Linux tools break the update process on FC5

Sat Mar 31 08:21:29 CST 2007

Well, I had another report of this yesterday. I have a fix ready for uploading but:

1) I never heard back from the reporter yesterday if the fix works or not

and

2) Our lab network has been down so I cant push the fix even if I wanted to. :(

The fix is simple. Remove line 11 where it does the import. That is dead code left over from an earlier iteration of the patch. Not sure if that is the only thing or not.

Let me know if this works for you and I will push updated packages as soon as our lab network connectivity is restored.
--
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-desktops-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Chris Rankin
Sent: Sat 3/31/2007 5:11 AM
To: linux-desktops
Subject: Dell's Linux tools break the update process on FC5

Hi,

I have installed the following packages on FC5:

firmware-addon-dell-1.2.6-1.fc5
dell-repo-tools-1.1.2-1.fc5

Unfortunately, they are killing Yum. The error message from "package updater" is below. Do these
packages have a missing dependency? The Yum Extender is working fine with both of these Dell
packages deleted, so I don't know what "yumRepo" module it could be complaining about.

Cheers,
Chris

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Component: Software Updater
Summary: TBa3ec1ba1 dellsysidplugin.py:11:?:ImportError: No module named yumRepo

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 389, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 382, in main
    pup = PackageUpdater()
  File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 77, in __init__
    GraphicalYumBase.__init__(self, False)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pirut/__init__.py", line 126, in __init__
    self.doPluginSetup(types=(yum.plugins.TYPE_CORE,))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 173, in doPluginSetup
    optparser, types)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 139, in __init__
    self._importplugins(types)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 181, in _importplugins
    self._loadplugin(modulefile, types)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 197, in _loadplugin
    module = imp.load_module(modname, fp, pathname, description)
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/dellsysidplugin.py", line 11, in ?
    from yum.yumRepo import YumRepository
ImportError: No module named yumRepo

Local variables in innermost frame:
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'UnicodeDecodeError': <class exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError at 0xb7f7acbc>, 'isinstance': <built-in
function isinstance>, 'copyright': Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Python Software Foundation.
All Rights Reserved.

Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam.
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