yum fails with "optparse.OptionConflictError: option --downloadonly: conflicting option string(s): --downloadonly"
Issue
- On attempting to upgrade packages, below errors are seen:
# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin,
: security, subscription-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 300, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 115, in main
base.getOptionsConfig(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 229, in getOptionsConfig
self.conf
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 911, in <lambda>
conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 335, in _getConfig
startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins,enabled_plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 564, in doPluginSetup
plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins, enabled_plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 167, in __init__
self.run('config')
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 184, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/downloadonly.py", line 30, in config_hook
default=False, help="don't update, just download")
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1020, in add_option
self._check_conflict(option)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/optparse.py", line 995, in _check_conflict
option)
optparse.OptionConflictError: option --downloadonly: conflicting option string(s): --downloadonly
Environment
- Red hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
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