On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:38:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:26:15PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > The yum libraries do not seem to be available on your system for this version > > > of python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 2 2005, 12:11:53) > > > [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] > > > Please make sure the package you used to install yum was built for your > > > install of python. > > > Any chance I can fix it, or is it time to move to FC4 ? > [...] > > A. This error message is often misleading. To see the real error, run > > Hmmm -- as Michael Schwendt points out, you seem to have the ATrpms version > of Python on your system. ATrpms actually packages up Python 2.4 and > includes packages built against that, and that could mean that the python > version mismatch error is actually exactly correct in this case. Just for the record, I did not claim anything specifically with regard to ATrpms. It's just that if a dependency is reported as broken in Yum's transaction check, this indicates that a new package _to be installed_ or _to be updated_ is very likely the culprit. As I don't have the time to examine this in detail, just a few observations: * FC3 system * FC3's rpm-python-4.3.2-21.i386.rpm includes /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so * that rpmmodule.so path is required by rhn-applet * yum transaction error report refers to: rpm-python-4.4.1-21_46.rhfc3.at which includes /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpm/_rpmmodule.so That's a different file name. So, if this updates FC3's rpm-python package, something must also update rhn-applet. ATrpms provides an update for rhn-applet, which assumedly depends on the upgraded rpm version [above]. So, check which version of rhn-applet you have installed right now. If it's incompatible (too new, for instance), your update attempt does not see ATrpms' rhn-applet package. Hence the broken deps. Verify this. The difference between FC3's rpm-python and the unofficial rpm-python upgrade is reason enough to be very careful. -- Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1432_FC5 loadavg: 2.37 1.80 2.12
