Yumex

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:09:58 +0100, Antonio wrote:

> Yumex doesn't start after latest upgrades and this is what I get when
> I start Yumex in a terminal!!!
> 
> yumex
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/pgpmsg.py:16: DeprecationWarning:
> the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
>   import struct, time, cStringIO, base64, types, md5, sha
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/pgpmsg.py:16: DeprecationWarning:
> the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
>   import struct, time, cStringIO, base64, types, md5, sha
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/yumex/yumex.py", line 42, in <module>
>     from yumapi import YumexYumHandler
>   File "/usr/share/yumex/yumapi.py", line 446
>     self.repos.populateSack(with='filelists')
>                                ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Change it to

     self.repos.populateSack(mdtype='filelists')
 
and see in which other parts it breaks. :-)

Without looking at the context, it's probably compatibility code
for the old Yum API, but Python >= 2.6 finally rejects "with" as
a named argument, because it's a reserved keyword now.