yum - problem with dependencies

[Timothy Murphy]

Craig White wrote:

> yum -e 1 -d 1 WHATEVER_YUM_COMMAND
> 
> will set debug level to print all errors
> 
> might get you more info...

Thanks for pointing this out.

Unfortunately, yum on this machine seems to be
going into a spiral of despair.

I ran "yum upgrade" excluding all the packages
which caused dependency problems.
That ran OK, but now when I run "yum update",
or in fact any yum command, I get the error
========================================
[tim at william ~]$ sudo yum check-update
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 6, in ?
    import yummain
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 25, in ?
    import cli
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 39, in ?
    from yum import pgpmsg
ImportError: cannot import name pgpmsg
[tim at william ~]$ exit
========================================

My update didn't update yum or python (I believe) -
I'm still running yum-2.2.0-0.fc3 and python-2.4-2 ,
though I notice I now have rpm-python-4.3.2-23
which I don't recall seeing before.

Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.



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