missing dependency python(abi) = 2.5 for package: ...

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:34:41 -0800,
  Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I looked at the packages with the conflicts and I removed them either with rpm -e or with yum erase package_name.rpm.  Then I ran yum update successfully.  At that time, only about 3 or 4 packages were removed so that I can yum update.  At this time, this might be different but it worked for me.  I have 3 machines running rawhide, only 1 fails to load X it freezes and does nothing.  It works on level 3 though.  YMMV with removing the packages with the conflicts.

That's a non-sequitor. I was referring your advice to try removing python
before doing an upgrade. The above advice is reasonable and is close to
what I did.