darrell pfeifer wrote:
In current rawhide, yum (or yum utils) has a dependency on a particular python module, but it the python chunk isn't pulled in by the yum upgrade. After upgrading yum, yum won't run any more.
I had a minimal F8 vmware VM, and yesterday intended to do a yum upgrade to get to rawhide. I installed fedora-release which gets me the fedora-development.repo and fedora-release files.
I then tried a yum check-update, and saw the heap of updates. Next I yum update rpm* yum*, which seemed OK. After that yum didn't work anymore. rpm was still working, so I upgraded groups of packages at a time.I managed to kill it in this process by running out of disk space while upgrading glibc, and others ;( and now she doesn't run commands or boot, I'm going to try again to get the error message.
DaveT.