[Cialug] CentOS Yum error

[David Champion]

Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Tim Perdue wrote:
>> Dave Weis wrote:
>>>
>>> Try
>>> rpm --rebuilddb
>>> but I don't think that will help. There seems to be something else 
>>> going on.
>>
>> Yeah, I think one of my guys forced something when he installed this:
>>
>> [root at texinst1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep git
>> git-1.5.2.1-1.el5.rf
>>
>> And I don't know how to resolve it. I can't remove the rpms during 
>> the day.
>
>
> but I thought linux didn't have library hell   /flame :)
>
> any chance you can download the old rpm, extract the .so file and drop 
> it in /lib?  then depending on whether php or git is dumb, point the 
> generic symlink to either so.3 or so.4  (or vice-versa, restore the 
> old and extract the new)
I have had to end up doing that for a lot of linux apps & games I 
download (that aren't installed via the package manager), that expect 
xyz_lib.so.3, but I have xyz_lib.so.4, so I just symlink it and it 
usually works.

-dc