Yum update for FC2

[Dave Close]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
>To the best of my knowledge, neither swig-1.3.21-2 nor
>subversion*1.0.3-1 are packages from Fedora Core 2. There have been
>subversion updates to 1.0.2, 1.0.4 (two times), 1.0.6 and 1.0.8
>(latest). And swig in FC2 is swig-1.3.19-6.1.i386.rpm and has not been
>updated. I assume something might be wrong in your /etc/yum.conf, and
>the configured set of repositories provide a newer swig which breaks
>the dependency. So, what's in your /etc/yum.conf?

Omitting the comments, here 'tis.

 # cat /etc/yum.conf
 [main]
 cachedir=/var/cache/yum
 debuglevel=2
 logfile=/var/log/yum.log
 pkgpolicy=newest
 distroverpkg=redhat-release
 tolerant=1
 exactarch=1
 retries=20

 [base]
 name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
 baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

 [updates-released]
 name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
 baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

I think this is unchanged except for the log file. Unfortunately, the
log doesn't go back to the beginning and doesn't show any subversion
or swig updates.

I had the same problem on a second machine at one time. But repeated
attempts eventually worked, and it now shows swig-1.3.19-6.1,
subversion-perl-1.0.8-1, subversion-1.0.8-1, and subversion-devel-1.0.8-1.
I don't know the origin of the swig-1.3.21-2.

How would you suggest fixing the problem machine? Can I downgrade swig?
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