On 10/24/07, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mine are in /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages, but this box is > fc5, YMMV. Also, yum does not necessarily keep rpms around after it > installs them, it depends on a config setting which in fc is set by > default to not keep rpms. > > find /var -type f |grep rpm > > should give a clue, though it might be slow. > > You could try downloading the rpms from the repo if it's not on your good box. I went to one of the mirrors last night and downloaded the yum rpm's that were on the good box but not on the busted one. When I did an 'rpm -i', it said it was missing rpm-python and required rpm >= 4.4.2. rpm --version said it was 4.4.2... So I downloaded rpm-python and rpm.4.4.2. When I tried to install them, it seemed that there were quite a few dependencies they were missing. At this point, I'm guessing the safest thing is not to fix it, but to reinstall everything. If I could use yum to resolve those dependencies, it would be easy! But since yum is not working, and I think it could be a dubious effort to try to resolve all those dependencies by hand... If anyone has any alternate ideas, I'd be happy to try them. Also, if there is any debugging information that might be saved, I can try to dig a little deeper to find the cause and see if a bug report should be filed. But to go with any option besides nuking it from space, I'll need some guidance. Thanks, Mike
