Yum and Up2date broken

[Paul Howarth]

Brian McDonald wrote:
>>I just updated from Fedora core 1 to Fedora Core 2 using Yum.
>>
>>Yum is now broken:
>>
>>error =
>>
>>[root at localhost root]# yum
>>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
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 20, in ?
>>    import rpm
>>ImportError: No module named rpm
>>
>>Up2date is broken =
>>
>>[root at localhost root]# up2date
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 11, in ?
>>    import rpm
>>ImportError: No module named rpm
>>
>>What do I have to do to fix this?
> 
> 
> Do you have the rpm-python package installed?
> 
> Paul.
> 
> Here is the results from the rpm -qi
> 
> Name        : rpm-python                   Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version     : 4.2.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 0.30                          Build Date: Thu 17 Jul 2003
> 10:47:16 PM EDT
> Install Date: Thu 04 Mar 2004 12:48:45 PM EST      Build Host:
> daffy.perf.redhat.com
> Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM:
> rpm-4.2.1-0.30.src.rpm
> Size        : 211145                           License: GPL
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 28 Oct 2003 06:45:04 PM EST, Key ID
> b44269d04f2a6fd2
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Summary     : Python bindings for apps which will manipulate RPM packages.

That's the FC1 version of rpm-python. Try updating all the packages listed by:

rpm -qa | grep ^rpm

to the ones in the FC2 repository you're using.

BTW, hints of upgrading from FC1 to FC2 using yum can be found at 
http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

Paul.