I ran into this problem as well. My system suddenly made python depend on tomcat5-admin-webapps which in turn wanted to drag down the entire tomcat55 and java packages etc, total of 79 extra packages and 119MB.
'yum clean all' fixed it. Now only the python was flagged for download and upgrade :) /Christopher Thorjussen -----Original Message----- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Curt Mills Sent: 6. august 2009 02:19 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Python 2.4 64-bit problem w/CentOS5.3? On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 16:18, Curt Mills<hac...@fluke.com> wrote: >> I'm getting this on two XF_64 systems by running "yum update" today. >> Perhaps Python 2.4 is missing some lib64 libraries? > > It's a known problem, apparently a bug in yum... > > Run "yum clean all", after that your "yum update" should work fine. Thanks everyone: I got three responses in about 15 minutes to my query, all of them helpful. It's up and running! -- Curt Mills, WE7U hacker at fluke dot com Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
