Re: yum problem

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:33:32 +0000
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    Al Bayrouni wrote:
    > Paul Howarth wrote:
    >
    >> Al Bayrouni wrote:
    >>
    >>> Excuse all (because this is the 2 post)
    >>>
    >>> I have just adding freshrps to my yum.conf,
    >>> and then I did yum update.
    >>> After few minutes the system was updated and I it works without any
    >>> problem.
    >>>
    >>> But now when I do: yum update there is a lot of errors like this:
    >>> Traceback (most recent call last):
    >>> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ?
    >>> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
    >>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main
    >>> result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
    >>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 381, in doCommands
    >>> return self.updatePkgs()
    >>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 766, in updatePkgs
    >>> self.doRepoSetup()
    >>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 70, in doRepoSetup
    >>> repo.getRepoXML()
    >>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 465, in
    >>> getRepoXML
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> You appear to have picked up python 2.4. This is only currently
    >> available in "rawhide" and is known to break lots of things. Which
    >> repos do you have enabled?
    >>
    >> Paul.
    >>
    > Paul,
    > here are all my repos in yum.conf
    > [testing]
    > development
    > base
    > updates-released
    > updates-testing

    If updates-testing is enabled, you no longer have an FC3 system, you have
    rawhide, which is very unstable and prone to just the sort of bug you have
    discovered.

    > fedora.us.stable
    > fedora.us.testing
    > fedora.us.unstable
    > fedora.us.updates-testing
    > THE PROBLEM BEGAN FROM HERE I THINK
    > livna-stable
    > livna-testing
    > dag
    > freshrpms
    > at-stable

    With all these testing repositories, you really shouldn't be surprised if
    things regularly fall over.

    Paul. 

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