Upgrading fc6 -> f7 with problems

Brian Truter btruter at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 14:07:06 UTC 2007


On 8/30/07, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:
>
> David Timms wrote:
> ...
> > How did you do the upgrade ?
>
> I've investigated this:
>
> I do:
>
> 1. Take an empty machine
> 2. Install FC6-i386 from a DVD,
>    exclude Office and Productivity,
>    the rest is default
> 3. Reboot, replace i586 kernel with i686 kernel
> 4. Reboot
> 5. yum -y update
> 6. reboot. See that I can log in and that yum update
>    doesn't want any other updates.
> 7. Reboot on F-7 i386 DVD, select upgrade
> 8. Reboot.
>
> If I now do a "yum update" I get:
> ===============================================================
> There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
> required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
>
>    No module named rpm
>
> Please install a package which provides this module, or
> verify that the module is installed correctly.
>
> It's possible that the above module doesn't match the
> current version of Python, which is:
> 2.5 (r25:51908, Apr 10 2007, 10:29:13)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20070403 (Red Hat 4.1.2-8)]
>
> If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to
> the yum faq at:
>   http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> ===============================================================
>
> rpm-python has the following version numbers:
>
> Original FC6:   rpm-python-4.4.2-32
> FC6 updates:    rpm-python-4.4.2.1-1.fc6
> Original F7:    rpm-python-4.4.2-46.fc7
> F7 updates:     rpm-python-4.4.2.1-1.fc7
>
> After the F7 upgrade I still have rpm-python-4.4.2.1-1.fc6
> installed.
>
> What is the Right Way of solving this problem? Using a respinned
> F7 for the upgrade?
>
> Mogens
>
>
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you should use the command 'yum upgrade' to upgrade from f6 to f7
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