[CentOS] package-cleanup fails when cleaning kernels in CentOS 5

Thu Apr 24 19:21:16 UTC 2008
J.J. Garcia <stigmatedbrain at gmail.com>

Hija!

I get this error while doing the cleanup, hints?

Cheers,

JJ

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[root at neonbox ~]# package-cleanup --oldkernels --count 2
Setting up yum
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "kmdl" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
I will remove the following 8 kernel related packages:
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
kernel-2.6.18-8.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Is this ok [y/N]: y
/usr/bin/package-cleanup:312: DeprecationWarning: returnHeaderByTuple()
will go away in a future version of Yum.

  hdr = my.rpmdb.returnHeaderByTuple(kernel)[0]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 402, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 371, in main
    removeKernels(my, opts.kernelcount, opts.confirmed, opts.keepdevel)
  File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 317, in removeKernels
    my.populateTs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 171, in
populateTs
    self.ts.addErase(txmbr.po.idx)
AttributeError: 'YumInstalledPackage' object has no attribute 'idx'

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FYI

[root at neonbox ~]# rpm -q yum
yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5
[root at neonbox ~]# which package-cleanup
/usr/bin/package-cleanup
[root at neonbox ~]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/package-cleanup
yum-utils-1.0.4-3.el5.centos.2
[root at neonbox ~]# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1


TIA

Jose.