On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:47:11PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:

http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.cent... rpm -i --nodeps --force

That's not going to work, because you're missing needed deps. Nodeps doesn't actually do any magic -- it just lets you install packages which may be broken once installed.

"There was a problem importing one of the python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named yum" What do I do now...

I suppose that you could try building a yum package for RHL 9 and going from there. But I think you're going end up doing a huge amount of clean-up work after this project is completed even if it's successful. Better to back up your data and configuration, do a clean install, and then proceed with a nice fresh system.

Step 1, undo what has been done and never use a force or nodeps!

Step 2, upgrade up2date to centos 3 (more on this when I find our notes)

Step 3, update all packages which are not customized.

Step 4, baby steps on customized configs/packages. ( you will need a lot of compat rpms to work with.)

Step 5, get upgraded to 4, then 5

We have upgraded all of out 7.x and 9 systems to centos 4. Except one, it has sendmail, apache, etc incompatibilities.

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Geis Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 2:47 PM To: CentOS ML Subject: [CentOS] RH9 to centos 5 386

I am testing the likelyhood of updating a couple RH9 systems to centos 5 386. I found at document that talked about updating to centos 4. steps being: 1.) backup 2.) rpm --import http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-centOS-5 rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5- 1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm rpm -i --nodeps --force http://pubmirrors.reflected.net/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/centos-release-5- 1.0.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm yum upgrade

Everything was progressing until I did tte "yum upgrade" I got an error about not finding a yum package.

"There was a problem importing one of the python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named yum"

What do I do now...

Thanks,

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