Upgrading fc6 -> f7 with problems

[Itamar Reis Peixoto]

yum -y update --enablerepo=updates-testing


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Itamar Reis Peixoto

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mogens Kjaer" <mk at crc.dk>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: Upgrading fc6 -> f7 with problems


> 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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