yum update in rawhide after a long break [was Re: rawhide report: 20080114 changes]

[Andrew Farris]

Todd Denniston wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote, On 01/23/2008 09:08 PM:
>> Todd Denniston wrote:
>>> Jim Cornette wrote, On 01/14/2008 06:07 PM:
>>>> Todd Denniston wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>>> 2) to get an F8 machine[1] on to rawhide do I just need to disable 
>>>>> the yum entries for fedora & updates, and then enable development, 
>>>>> then do a yum update?n 
>>>>
>>>> You may need to do this upgrade incremental. Also make sure that you 
>>>> are running yum from a virtual terminal instead of through a 
>>>> terminal in the GUI. Chances are that X will crash and yum will have 
>>>> left a mess in the aftermath.
>>>> I prefer to upgrade the glibc items first and then everything 
>>>> incrementally except do not update the kernel until the later 
>>>> portion of the update.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have a propensity to `yum update yum* rpm* cpio gpg` before I 
>>> update much else on the system...
>>> That bit me this time.
>>>
>>
>> I do not update yum initially because of past failures. I guess it is 
>> still a good idea to wait until the bulk of packages is upgraded.
>>
> learning.
> 
>>>
>>> apparently the yum-3.2.8-2.fc9 rpm set got something wrong.
>>
>> If it depends upon a certain version of python it should have pulled 
>> it in or refused to pull in yum,
>>>
> 
> Actually, it does not seem to be a python problem so much as a problem 
> in yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-5.fc9.i386.rpm with _sqlitecache.so ... see 
> my next paragraph from (my first email in this thread today) and 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=178870
> 
>>> so it looks like I am going to be doing an `rpm -Fvh *` in my Rawhide 
>>> mirror, updating openssl just pulls in too many dependencies.... and 
>>> after that failed ... a little googleing ended up at:
>>> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=178870
>>> by pulling the _sqlitecache.so (and just that file) from a 
>>> yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-1.fc8.i386.rpm, at least lets yum try to 
>>> update 731 packages. [It looks like it may have worked, but <deity> 
>>> only knows how much on the raw side of rawhide the machine is now.]
>>
>> It should pull in the newer packages correctly I would expect.
>>
>>>
>>> the yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-5.fc9.i386.rpm must then be the package 
>>> with the problem.???

This is in bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=429041

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