On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I certainly don't _want_ to use rawhide. I regard that as > crocodile-infested waters, which I have inadvertently entered. You > are suggesting I will be OK if I venture further into the swamp. python-2.4 is the biggest crock - which you already pulled in. My guess is - the rest of rawhide fixes up things that broke with the python upgrade. I have a machine which is completely updated to rawhide - and yum works fine on it. # rpm -q yum yum-2.1.12-1 > > I'll try using ftp:// URLs first ... > > [Actually, I seem to remember someone else had this problem, > and a small correction to the python code was suggested?] Don't know. There could be more info on this problem in the fedora-test list archives. Satish