[NTLUG:Discuss] What designates what version you're running?

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:00, Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> This is a problem with the python libs I'm not at a place were I can walk
> you through it right now but you should be ale to look it up it was fairly
> common problem for updaters who had specific packages installed and it tells
> you how to resolve it.


>   At this next step...I get this error...
> 
> > - run a yum list updates to get the metadata and make sure everything is
> > working:
> >   yum list updates
> >   you should see a lot of packages from that output.
> 
> [root at tuxie New]# yum list updates
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ?
>     import yummain
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 23, in ?
>     import yum
> ImportError: No module named yum

All of the googling I did on this turned up a recommendation to upgrade
yum (which I did, no effect) and libxml2-python.  Attempting to upgrade
that file (and all of the libxml2*.rpm's) failed dependencies.  I
attempted to upgrade python, again, failed dependencies.

If you can either tell me what it was you did to resolve this issue or
point me in the right direction, I'd GREATLY appreciate it.  Would I
force upgrades?  No deps?  What?  If that's it, force the upgrade with
rpm, will yum start to work so I can complete the upgrade from FC1
(which is partially FC3 now) to FC3?

As you can tell, I'm reluctant to just force the rpm upgrades without
knowing what it's going to do to my system.  If it doesn't fix the yum
issue and I can't continue the upgrade, I'm concerned I'm just going to
be screwing this box up even more.

I shoulda just stayed with FC1.  

Thanks,

Wayne