[Yum] Re: rpm install failing due to dependencies

Ross Marshall rmarshall at solidodesign.com
Mon Aug 18 17:13:40 UTC 2008


>What is the exact name of your RPM?  If it's just "python", then maybe
>yum is trying to upgrade CentOS' "python" to yours, which would be bad
>news.  You could call it "python2.5" or even something like
>"python2.5-custom" to be extra safe.

Thanks Greg, this fixed the problem. The package is called python-2.5.2-rhel4, but I had another
called python-base-2.5.2-rhel4 which yumex installed without errors.

Ross




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