After updating per instructions, does yum break?

[Dan Thurman]

I followed the instructions per:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key#Known_Issues

So the steps were for me:

1) Get the Key:
    a) F8: 
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/fedora-release/8/6.transition/data/signed/4f2a6fd2/noarch/fedora-release-8-6.transition.noarch.rpm

    b) F9: 
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/fedora-release/9/5.transition/data/signed/4f2a6fd2/noarch/fedora-release-9-5.transition.noarch.rpm

2) rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-8-and-9
3) yum --skip-broken update
4) Wait until the yum package is fixed and added to the repository, then:
    a) yum update yum
    b) yum update yum-utils

Is this right?

But this looks like the chicken/egg problem...  yum is definitely
broken after updates even if if the --skip-broken option is selected
such as below:

# yum --skip-broken list
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 243, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 98, in main
    base.getOptionsConfig(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 183, in getOptionsConfig
    disabled_plugins=self.optparser._splitArg(opts.disableplugins))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 180, in 
_getConfig
    startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 342, in 
doPluginSetup
    plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 151, in 
__init__
    self._importplugins(types)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 193, in 
_importplugins
    self._loadplugin(modulefile, types)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 226, in 
_loadplugin
    module = imp.load_module(modname, fp, pathname, description)
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/filter-data.py", line 111
    ('committers', 'committer')]
                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

So, the question is - how do I fix this problem?

Dan