Yum is ill again

[Kam Leo]

On 8/31/07, mcforum at bellsouth.net <mcforum at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package dcraw.i386 0:8.77-1.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package ntp.i386 0:4.2.4p2-3.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package cryptsetup-luks.i386 0:1.0.5-4.fc7.1 set to be updated
> ---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.1.1-1.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package crontabs.noarch 0:1.10-15.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package liboil.i386 0:0.3.12-9.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package kdebindings.i386 0:3.5.7-1.fc7.1 set to be updated
> ---> Package glibmm24.i386 0:2.12.10-1.fc7 set to be updated
> ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.1.1-1.fc7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: perl(DCOP) for package: kdesdk
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 135, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 540, in buildTransaction
>     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 885, in resolveDeps
>     (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processReq(dep, prcoformat_need)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 334, in _processReq
>     requirementTuple, errormsgs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 469, in _requiringFromInstalled
>     return self._requiringFromTransaction(reqpkg, requirement, errorlist)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 574, in _requiringFromTransaction
>     reqpkg = self.tsInfo.matchNaevr(name=name, ver=version, rel=release)[0]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> perl seems to be contaminating everything.
>
> TNWesTex

Where does perl come into the picture? Yum uses python. It is clearly
referenced in the output posted above as python 2.5.