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@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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
