yum broken

[Ian Burrell]

On 9/1/06, sidney dunham <sidd at megalink.net> wrote:
> Yum is broken after the most recent update. could anyone tell me how to
> get it going again. package manager and piruit are are also broken.
> Some one mentioned about reverting to fedora core 5 yum how would I go
> about that. I retreived the RPMS from the development list. could not
> install from terminal said they conflicted with yum-2.9.5-3. Can not
> remove yum-2.9.5-3 because of dependencies with yum-metadata-parser.
> Have Googled this no help there. Does anyone have any ideas. All help
> would be appreciated Thanks in advance
>

What is broken is the installonlyn plugin.  My guess is that there was
an incompatible change to yum core and the plugin was not updated. As
a temporary fix, move the installonlyn.* files from
/usr/lib/yum-plugins.  That will let yum work without the plugin.

 - Ian