Yum did it again

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:37, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Wednesday 22 June 2005 08:16, seth vidal wrote:
>>On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 07:22 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>>
>>> I just followed the instructions on the legacy web page on howto
>>> setup yum to use the legacy repos.
>>>
>>> I have some stuff built from tarballs, like bleeding edge kernels
>>> cups, gimp etc, so those got added to the exclude line.
>>>
>>> Unforch, I forgot about the libxml2 stuffs.  So, after yum had
>>> updated several dozen packages including libxlm2, I'm back to
>>> square one with this error:
>>> root at coyote dlds-rpms]# yum check-update
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
>>>     import yummain
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 31, in ?
>>>     import yumcomps
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum/yumcomps.py", line 4, in ?
>>>     import comps
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum/comps.py", line 5, in ?
>>>     import libxml2
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2.py", line 1, in
>>> ? import libxml2mod
>>> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so:
>>> undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI
>>>
>>> Obviously I'm missing a point here because historically I have had
>>> to forceably reinstall the older versions of libxml2 here several
>>> times before to get yum to work again.

Fixed the above paragraph to match what I thought I typed.  Does it 
now make sense?

>>> So what is this point I'm missing?
>>>
>>> I really would like to be able to use yum, but the constant
>>> libxml2 problems are making it impossible to use without an
>>> exclude line that includes libxml2*.
>>
>>what version of fedora?
>
>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.
>
>>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
>
>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.
>
>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.

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