yum-skip-broken 1.1.11-1.fc9.noarch got updated yesterday. $ yum update -y Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, fastestmirror, skip-broken 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 237, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 91, in main base.getOptionsConfig(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 180, in getOptionsConfig disabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.disableplugins)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 168, in _getConfig startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 350, in doPluginSetup plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 156, in __init__ self.run('config') File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 172, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/skip-broken.py", line 110, in config_hook help="skip packages with broken dependencies") File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 1014, in add_option self._check_conflict(option) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/optparse.py", line 989, in _check_conflict option) optparse.OptionConflictError: option --skip-broken: conflicting option string(s): --skip-broken Removing yum-skip-broken solves the problem. Reported as #435241 [1]. - Gilboa [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435241