323793 – app-arch/createrepo should depend on sys-apps/yum

Bug 323793 - app-arch/createrepo should depend on sys-apps/yum

Summary: app-arch/createrepo should depend on sys-apps/yum

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it

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Reported:	2010-06-13 16:26 UTC by Dani Church
Modified:	2010-06-16 20:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Dani Church 2010-06-13 16:26:12 UTC

app-arch/createrepo has python dependencies on the yum package, which is installed with sys-apps/yum.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install app-arch/createrepo, without sys-apps/yum installed
2. Run createrepo

Actual Results:  
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/createrepo/genpkgmetadata.py", line 28, in <module>
    import createrepo
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
    import yumbased
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/createrepo/yumbased.py", line 22, in <module>
    from yum.packages import YumLocalPackage
ImportError: No module named yum.packages

Comment 1 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-13 21:54:45 UTC

Hello Mike,

can you please fix this bug and maybe grab this package? 

Thanks, Michael

Comment 2 Dani Church 2010-06-13 23:11:21 UTC

Incidentally, according to the homepage, createrepo 0.9.x requires yum >= 3.2.23.

Comment 3 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2010-06-16 20:45:27 UTC

+  16 Jun 2010; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> createrepo-0.9.8.ebuild:
+  Fixing deps for #323793