Re: Yum did it again

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> >> Obviously I'm missing a 
> po/usr/dlds-rpms/libxml2-python-2.6.10-1.1.fc2.nr.i386.rpmint here 
> because historically I have had
> >> to forceably reinstall the older versions of libxml2 here several
> >> times before to get yum to work again.
> >>

where did you get this package from?

> FC2 with lots of updates via tarball builds, but that should not be 
> related, I've (up till now) been carefull not to touch the 
> yum/python/libxml2 stuffs after getting burnt previously.

updates via tarballs is a really bad idea.


> >what version of yum?
> 
> yum-2.0.7-1.1
> 
> >what version of libxml2 and libxml2-python are installed?
> 
> libxml2-python-2.6.16-2
> libxml2-devel-2.6.10-1.1.fc2.nr
> libxml2-2.6.16-2

does it strike you as alarming that those 3 don't all match?


> I've since tried to re-install the 2.6.10-1.1 stuffs but apparently 
> failed.  It was yum that upgraded it all to 2.6.16-2 this morning.

so then yum is working?


> There are pieces of python-1.5, 2.2, and 2.3 installed here.  Its been 
> that way since I upgraded RH7.3 to FC2.

I'd like to show you to:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org

go download an install disk and fix your system.

-sv