relationships - Could not be JSON object decoded about fedora-packages

[arielb2]

the same message with "Provides"
~]$ pkgwat provides sssd
Starting new HTTP connection (1): localhost
No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)

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AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'provides'

Module fedoracommunity.connectors.yumconnector:259 in query_provides view

rows = self._pkgtuples_to_rows(pkg.provides, _eq=None)

[ralphbean]

Some investigation.

I tried to find out what that "pkg" object is if it has no requires or provides attribute. I found that it is actually a dict containing an error message.

I then tracked that down to see that its coming from here, from the yum connector:

https://github.com/fedora-infra/fedora-packages/blob/develop/fedoracommunity/connectors/yumconnector.py#L162

I guess the next step is to remove that (since it doesn't make any sense). And to just raise that yum dep error. I'd rather have error messages that tell us what went wrong instead of ones that obfuscate the failure.

[ralphbean]

So, I'm pretty sure this is just working now. The issue is that the rpmdb intermittently gets corrupted. There is a cronjob now that sets it straight every 15 minutes.

~❯ pkgwat provides nethack
+---------------------------------+
| Provides                        |
+---------------------------------+
| nethack(x86-64) 0-3.4.3-29.fc20 |
| nethack 0-3.4.3-29.fc20         |
| config(nethack) 0-3.4.3-29.fc20 |
+---------------------------------+