yum update problem

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> > Looks to me like you have the rawhide python installed - and that's not
> > good on a FC3 system.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Here's the gist of my problem:
> ========================================
> Yesterday I ran a rather complicated yum install,
> for which I had to enablerepo=development ,
> and today when I run "yum update" I get the error
> ==========================================
> [tim at william 2004]$ sudo yum update
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 468, in http_response
>     code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg, response.info()
> AttributeError: HTTPResponse instance has no attribute 'code'
> ==========================================
> 
> I'm sure you are correct in your diagnosis -
> I have inadvertently installed an inappropriate version of python -
> but what can I do about it?

I guess you really want to use rawhide.. You can try installing yum
from rawhide - and see if it works. A workarround is to use ftp://
urls instead of http:// urls.

Satish