[Cialug] CentOS Yum error

[Barry Von Ahsen]

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)

-barry