>>Is there a reason to not perform basic upgrade > >tasks like 'yum update' (aside from the obvious now where it won't > >work)? > > > Ok, I'll be watching close. I'm not sure how 'OK' fits as an answer to that question, but so long as you're aware of what you're doing, I'm not one to judge. > But you did not explain why the rpm dependency was failing: Something is horked in your system, and we don't have enough detail yet to know why it's failing to upgrade rpm. > Is it a yum bug? Dag covered part of this already. Part of what you're seeing is related to crap on your system, and the other part is something that some call a bug and some don't. I don't see it as a bug, but it's also not the way I'd expect yum to act. -- This message has been double ROT13 encoded for security. Anyone other than the intended recipient attempting to decode this message will be in violation of the DMCA