FC3 - Has the community given up on up2date?

[seth vidal]

> Thats an extremely off experience here statement .  Yum has updated 
> glibc once on this box that I know of.  No problems caused by that.  
> But every time it tries to put in a newer python libxml2, it breaks 
> itself and half the rest of the system that uses python till I go 
> back to the FC2 cd's and forceably reinstall the originals again.  If 
> the writers of libxml2 cannot make a new version backwards 
> compatible, I would much prefer it be left the hell alone until all 
> the stuff that depends on it have also been updated to be compatible.
> 
> I've had a severely crippled machine for 3 of the 6 months I've been 
> running FC2.  And questions sent here as to why have, with one or two 
> exceptions, been met with the usual phone support lets take it by the 
> numbers order of troubleshooting that degenerates into a 'Gee, thats 
> never happened here' quote, and I'm left hanging.  Once I figured out 
> that if I put the CD's versions back in, I've been able to fix it 
> everytime yum fubars it.  But I eventually got tired of that and now 
> thats in the exclude list in my yum.conf.

Gene,
 I've seen your messages to yum-list and fedora lists. In almost every
case you've installed things via check-install and your rpmdb is
bordering on spaghetti. Your problems with yum are entirely user error.

-sv