Yum works again ! :-)

[Barbara Pennacchi <b pennacchi istc cnr it>]

About time. It was openssl that caused the whole mess. Apparently, I  
updated some time ago openssl from a openssl-related site that provided  
rpm packages for rh8/9 to the version 0.9.7a-30, while on fedora legacy  
mirrors there was openssl 0.9.7a-20.2

So I downloaded from fedora legacy the right package, gave it a "rpm -Uvh  
--force" then checked in the command line of python with "import ftplib"  
to see if there were still errors. Python didn't complain so I re- 
installed yum.

oh well. ^__^

(no, don't ask me why I updated openssl to 0.9.7a-30, I don't have this  
much cache in my biological RAM!)

Thanks to everybody for all their help. :-)

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