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[Kurt Yoder <kyoder.loc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes; see notes [2] and [3]:

[2]: current package version is yum-plugin-replace-0.2-1.el5
[3]: http://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/0.8-stable/chef/lib/chef/provider/package/yum-dump.py


-Kurt

On Aug 9, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Bj Dierkes wrote:

> Can you tell what version of yum-plugin-replace and I'm not familiar with yum-dump...  Where can I get this for testing?
> 
> I will be in the office tomorrow and can assist further.  Thank you
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 9, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Kurt Yoder <kyoder.loc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> (forewarning: I am writing this as a sysadmin on a CentOS host with IUS installed by the host owner/user, but paltry knowledge of IUS)
>> 
>> I have been running Chef [1] on one of my CentOS 5.5 hosts. Recently, either the host's owner installed IUS, or upgraded it [2], and now CentOS and Chef are no longer on speaking terms. I traced the problem down to a certain "yum-dump.py" [3] script within Chef, which works with stock Yum, but gets very angry when package "yum-plugin-replace" has been installed [4].
>> 
>> It looks like yum-plugin-replace overrode the "preconf" functions within Python's yum. Can someone confirm that this is the case, and suggest a fix and/or workaround for me? Confirming this problem should be simple:
>> 
>> - Retrieve yum-dump.py (from [3])
>> - On a system without yum-plugin-replace, run "sudo python yum-dump.py"
>> - Install yum-plugin-replace
>> - Run "sudo python yum-dump.py" once more
>> - (Optional) Bask in your god-like intelligence for knowing how to fix this problem
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -Kurt Yoder
>> 
>> [1]: http://opscode.com/chef
>> [2]: current package version is yum-plugin-replace-0.2-1.el5
>> [3]: http://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/0.8-stable/chef/lib/chef/provider/package/yum-dump.py
>> [4]: yum-dump.py output:
>> kurt@darmstadtium:~$ sudo python yum-dump.py 
>> [sudo] password for kurt: 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "yum-dump.py", line 104, in ?
>>   y.doUnlock(PIDFILE)
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1167, in doUnlock
>>   if hasattr(self, 'preconf') or self.conf.uid != 0:
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 664, in <lambda>
>>   conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 194, in _getConfig
>>   fn = self.preconf.fn
>> AttributeError: 'YumBase' object has no attribute 'preconf'
>> Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "'YumBase' object has no attribute 'preconf'" in <bound method YumBase.__del__ of <yum.YumBase object at 0x2b3e60f80f90>> ignored
>> 
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