James Wilkinson wrote: > I recommended: >> cd /media/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS >> rpm -F --oldpackage python-2.3.4-11.i386.rpm >> and maybe >> rpm -F --oldpackage yum-2.1.11-3.noarch.rpm >> >> which should get you back to the versions on the install media. > > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Are you sure that would work? >> I would have thought I would get lots of depedemcy conflicts >> next time I said "yum upgrade"? >> (There were a fairly large number of packages updated >> at the same time as python.) > > Depends. Sorry. > > It depends how much has been installed that requires a specific later > version on Python. > > But you should get these dependency conflicts when you try to run the > rpm -F --oldpackage commands, not when you're running yum. OK, thanks, that is useful to know. > So if it doesn't work, it doesn't work (but you should take a look at > what needs the later versions). If it works, you shouldn't get these > problems on the next yum upgrade. Actually, just getting the latest version of yum seems to have solved all my problems, which as far as I can see were due to a fairly big error in the python-2.4 interpreter. Maybe I mis-read this - I don't know or use Python - but if I am correct, and there is a fairly serious error in urllib2.py/urllib.py , I find it a little surprising it was not corrected almost at once. I assume (I didn't look into this) the later version of yum (2.1.12-1) side-stepped this problem by using a different method to access an http URL. > And you might find that rawhide fixes that awkward video card of > yours... On the other hand, I would be frightened that if it doesn't I would never be able to get back to my present fully-working state. At the moment, I get the xorg-x11 sources, add the tiny patch necessary, cite it in the spec file, and re-build. The compilation takes several hours on my Sony Picturebook laptop (C1VFK) so I try to avoid it as far as possible ... Incidentally, the whole problem arose because at some stage I removed a package (system-config-printer) which did not seem to be working (or at least, it was not working as others claimed it should, to automatically configure CUPS so that I could us a remote printer). My idea was that I could just "yum remove" and then "yum install" to get back to the original position, but I found that these operations are by no means mutually inverse, as "yum remove" seemed to remove a whole range of packages which for some reason I was not able to recover with "yum install". Maybe "yum remove" should come with a health warning? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
