On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:29, Tom Browder wrote: > I found my problem (my bad): I had a local libxml2 which was current > with RH 9 but outdated after the FC 1 upgrade. It was being used by > python and it had a missing symbol. I removed the outdated library > and everything works fine now. > you mean you built libxml2 from tar and didn't install it via rpm? > That brings up some questions: > > -Is there any way yum could have found that situation? if the package isn't in the rpmdb yum won't know about it. > -Should rpm have found it? if it wasn't installed with rpm, no. > -Should I not mix manual and rpm updates (not mix is the probable > answer)? not mix. -sv
