It turns out that the RPMs in question had an Obsoletes line that obsoleted themselves. After removing this line, yum works fine. It does seem a shame that yum isn't smart enough to notice this and exit gracefully. Instead it dies with: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded Unfortunately, I can't fix this myself (don't know any python). Thanks, Pablo _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum