Karanbir Singh wrote: > for the time being, i'd suggest you also look at the output of 'rpm -qa > --last' very carefully. Attached is rpm -qa --last . In case it is helpful, I sorted that output and compared it to the yum.log to see the differences. > and the rpm --oldpackage option might come in handy - you should not > need to uninstall anything, just move the pkgs to be installed into a > new directory and then use something like 'rpm --oldpackage -uvh *.rpm' This would be great. I hope you are right. My concern is the packages include python, yum, and rpm. Following was my draft strategy prior to reading your message: Not sure what to do with these: Installed: libbeecrypt6.i386 4.1.2-9.2_11.el4.at Installed: librpm4.3.i386 4.3.3-8_41.el4.at Installed: librpm4.4.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Installed: python24.i386 2.4.1-2_8.el4.at Uninstall first: Updated: libselinux-devel.i386 1.23.10-1.99_3.el4.at Installed: sqlite-devel.i386 3.2.2-1 Updated: libxml2-devel.i386 2.6.22-1_21.el4.at Installed: neon-devel.i386 0.24.7-5.99_2.el4.at Updated: rpm-devel.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Installed: atrpms.noarch 67-1.at Leave: Updated: perl-XML-LibXML.i386 1.58-4.el4.at Installed: libxml2_2.i386 2.6.22-1_21.el4.at Installed: pythonabi.i386 2.3.4-1.el4.at Think okay to downgrade/reinstall: Updated: rpm-build.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Updated: libselinux.i386 1.23.10-1.99_3.el4.at Updated: popt.i386 1.10.2-15.1_58.el4.at Updated: neon.i386 0.24.7-5.99_2.el4.at Updated: rpm.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Updated: libxml2.i386 2.6.22-1_21.el4.at Updated: libxml2-python.i386 2.6.22-1_21.el4.at Updated: rpm-python.i386 4.4.2-15.1_58.el4.at Updated: yum.i386 2.4.2-69.el4.at Erased: rpm-libs Uninstall Last: Installed: libxml2-python24.i386 2.6.22-1_22.el4.at Installed: rpm-python24.i386 4.4.2-11_9.el4.at RPMs from centos server 4.2 cd that seem relevant libselinux-1.19.1-7.i386.rpm libxml2-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.6.16-6.i386.rpm neon-0.24.7-4.i386.rpm popt-1.9.1-11_nonptl.i386.rpm python-2.3.4-14.1.i386.rpm rpm-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386.rpm rpm-libs-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.3.3-11_nonptl.i386.rpm yum-2.4.0-1.centos4.noarch.rpm > also, did you think about taking this issue up with the repository > maintainer ? These look like pkgs from atrpms - and Axel has been fairly > responsive recently to issues such as this. It is most certainly my fault *not* his. I had added a packed of his to includepkgs= but removed it when I found it had too many dependencies, but I neglected to change enabled= back to 0. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: rpm.qa.last.vs.yum.log.txt URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060304/d9d20098/attachment-0005.txt>