CentOS - May 2008 - problem with yumdownload?

coworker wants to download a module with all its dependencies, for use 
in updating an offline system...   CentOS 5.latest ...

[root at pig home]# yum -y install yum-utils
......

[root at pig home]# yumdownloader --resolve gcc
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates
Finished
263 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 191, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/yumdownloader", line 159, in main
    if not pkg in toDownload:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 191,
in
__eq__
    if other == None:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line
403, in __cmp__
    if self.name > other.name:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'name'
[root at pig home]#


um...  this a bug?

Hi,

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:38 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
wrote:
> coworker wants to download a module with all its dependencies, for use in
> updating an offline system...   CentOS 5.latest ...
>
> [root at pig home]# yumdownloader --resolve gcc
...
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line
191, in
> __eq__
>   if other == None:
...
> um...  this a bug?
Yes, it's a bug!

In line 191 of packages.py, the "is" operator should be used instead
of "==". The line should read:

        is other is None:

I changed my file and after that it worked fine. I will open a bug
upstream for that.

Filipe