[Yum] i screwed up

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Richard Ray wrote:

>> okay - then a simple test.
>> 
>> wget the primary.xml.gz from the addons repos on that machine.
>> 
>> do it at the prmpt then run
>> xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz
>
> on failing machine
>
> $ md5sum primary.xml.gz
> 1b53def5a5feaa75fd3b6732ed0de0d6  primary.xml.gz
> $ xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz
> primary.xml.gz:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
>
> ^
> $ ls -l primary.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201 Oct 19  2009 primary.xml.gz
>
>
>
> on working machine
>
> $ md5sum primary.xml.gz
> 1b53def5a5feaa75fd3b6732ed0de0d6  primary.xml.gz
> $ xmllint --noout primary.xml.gz
> $ ls -l primary.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201 Oct 19  2009 primary.xml.gz
>

so the files have the same checksum but one of them works and the other 
does not via xmllint?

run ldd /usr/bin/xmllint on the broken and non-broken machine.

and run
rpm -q libxml2 on both machines

-sv