[Yum] restarting yum.. from a clean rpm/yum database...

[Paul Rennix]

I'm having a similar problem, I tried to upgrade to FC3 with yum on a remote 
machine, and there were dozens of dependency problems so it aborted without 
installing anything.

so I did
#rpm -Uvh --force fedora-release-2-4.i386.rpm
#yum clean all
#rpm --rebuilddb

ALSO, before attempting the upgrade to FC3, I upgraded to the latest yum 
version. Should I roll back the yum version, if so, what is the best method 
for that?

here is what happens with #yum upgrade after I did the above:

COMMAND: yum upgrade
Installroot: /
Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up Repo:  fedora-us-2-stable
Baseurl(s) for repo: 
['http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable']
repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  903 B    00:00
Setting up Repo:  fedora-us-2
Baseurl(s) for repo: 
['http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.os']
repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  903 B    00:00
Setting up Repo:  fedora-us-2-updates
Baseurl(s) for repo: 
['http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.updates']
repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  903 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Setting up Package Sacks
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 171 kB    00:00
MD Read   : ################################################## 550/550
fedora-us-: ################################################## 550/550
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 517 kB    00:01
MD Read   : ################################################## 1619/1619
fedora-us-: ################################################## 1619/1619
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 151 kB    00:00
MD Read   : ################################################## 401/401
fedora-us-: ################################################## 401/401
Reading Local RPMDB
Building updates object
putting kdegraphics-devel in complex update
putting kernel in complex update
putting cups-devel in complex update
putting postgresql-libs in complex update
putting cups-libs in complex update
putting postgresql in complex update
putting postgresql-server in complex update
putting squid in complex update
putting openssl in complex update
putting cups in complex update
putting kdegraphics in complex update
putting glibc in complex update
putting kernel in complex update
processing kdegraphics-devel.i386
processing kernel.i686
processing cups-devel.i386
processing postgresql-libs.i386
processing cups-libs.i386
processing postgresql.i386
processing postgresql-server.i386
processing squid.i386
processing openssl.i686
processing cups.i386
processing kdegraphics.i386
processing glibc.i686
processing kernel.i686
Resolving Dependencies
1110306533.54
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for php to pack into transaction set.
php-4.3.4-11.i386.rpm     100% |=========================|  18 kB    00:00
Adding Package php - 4.3.4-11.i386 in mode u
---> Package php.i386 0:4.3.4-11 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for kernel-sourcecode to pack into transaction set.
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.10- 100% |=========================| 2.2 MB    00:05
Adding Package kernel-sourcecode - 2.6.10-1.770_FC2.noarch in mode u
---> Package kernel-sourcecode.noarch 0:2.6.10-1.770_FC2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
# of Deps = 5
php-ldap requires: php = 4.3.10-2.4
--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.10-2.4 for package: php-ldap
Requiring package php-ldap-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
php-mysql requires: php = 4.3.10-2.4
--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.10-2.4 for package: php-mysql
Requiring package php-mysql-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
php-pgsql requires: php = 4.3.10-2.4
--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.10-2.4 for package: php-pgsql
Requiring package php-pgsql-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
php-devel requires: php = 4.3.10-2.4
--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.10-2.4 for package: php-devel
Requiring package php-devel-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
php-mbstring requires: php = 4.3.10-2.4
--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.10-2.4 for package: php-mbstring
Requiring package php-mbstring-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
miss = 5
conf = 0
CheckDeps = 0
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependency Process ending
Error: Requiring package php-ldap-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
Error: Requiring package php-mysql-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
Error: Requiring package php-pgsql-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
Error: Requiring package php-devel-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb
Error: Requiring package php-mbstring-4.3.10-2.4.i386 not in transaction set 
nor in rpmdb

any advice appreciated.

-Paul