[Yum] Yum building fun

Brian Ferguson bjf10 at ee.washington.edu
Thu Jul 22 16:15:56 UTC 2004


Does anyone have any insight on this error message?  I didn't see any 
errors while doing rpmbuild...

Thanks,

Brian.

> Hi again,
> 
> So to solve my previous problem with yum incorrectly picking old 
> versions of a package as "new", I downloaded the yum-1.0.3 source and 
> created an rpm from it using a slightly modified .spec file (removed the 
> cron stuff, yum.conf, and init.d stuff since we have a special set up).
> 
> The rpm was created successfully, but after installing it I get the 
> following error message when I run yum or yum-arch:
> 
> # yum
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/yum", line 22, in ?
>     import yummain
> ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/yummain.pyc
> 
> # yum-arch
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/yum-arch", line 22, in ?
>     import pullheaders
> ImportError: Bad magic number in /usr/share/yum/pullheaders.pyc
> 
> 
> I did some searching and previously it was said that old versions of 
> python can cause this bug.  We have python-1.5.2-43.73 installed, which 
> is above the required 1.5.2.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian.
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