> Now I need to scratch my head a bit and figure out why the new popt > "conflicts" with the existing one when installed on its own, but > installs as part of a "batch" of rpms. it wasn't 'installed' it was 'updated'. install means - put this on the system update means - update over top of this other thing that is already on the system. > All this sysadmin stuff is hard - I'll be happy to get back to being a > developer instead when this project is over :-) you could, of course, consider being a developer on yum or affiliated projects ;) -sv