[RFC] additional enhancements for RHEL3/4 for Dell system-specific repo

[Tony Schreiner]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Tony wrote:

> On 4/6/07, Tony <pthagonal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Now if I try yum check-update I get this error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
>>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 80, in main
>>     base.getOptionsConfig(args)
>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 196, in getOptionsConfig
>>     self.doPluginSetup(self.optparser)
>>   File "__init__.py", line 157, in doPluginSetup
>>   File "plugins.py", line 134, in __init__
>>   File "plugins.py", line 176, in _importplugins
>>   File "plugins.py", line 191, in _loadplugin
>>   File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/dellsysidplugin.py", line 11, in ?
>>     from yum.yumRepo import YumRepository
>> ImportError: No module named yumRepo
>>
>> Anyone any ideas what I've done wrong?
>>
>
> Answering myself, I've tried to get my head around how yum and  
> python work.
>
> I've realised that CentOS 4.4 currently has yum-2.4.3-1.c4 - and I'm
> suspecting that this is too low a version of yum for your plugin to
> work because /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py does not
> exist.
>
> Sadly (at least in this repect) this CentOS 4.4 system is fully
> patched up to date and there would be no way I'd go changing to
> another yum version unless it came through the centos update channels.
>
> But the RHN/up2date sources method works so it's not the end of the  
> world!

Having just dealt with this myself earlier today. Did you upgrade  
recently? Is your dell.repo pointing to the right release?

In my case I had not changed the dell.repo and it was pointing to  
FC4, though I had just upgraded to FC6. FC4 has python 2.3

Tony Schreiner
Boston College