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@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. > > 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? what version of yum? what version of libxml2 and libxml2-python are installed? -sv -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
