Description of problem: For the last week, yum update has failed as follows: # yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories livna [1/7] livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 jpackage16-fc4 [2/7] jpackage16-fc4 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 macromedia [3/7] macromedia 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 core [4/7] //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:50: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 48 and div </div> ^ //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:51: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: img line 45 and div </div> ^ //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:73: parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined <div id="border"> </div> ^ //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:79: parser error : Entity 'copy' not defined <span class="text">Copyright © 2004 NGI S.p.A. | All rights reserved</s ^ //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:85: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 10 and body </body> ^ //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:86: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 9 and html </html> ^ //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml:87: parser error : Premature end of data in tag html line 3 ^ core 100% |=========================| 2.7 kB 00:00 http://fedora.ngi.it/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for core: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/core/repomd.xml Trying other mirror. core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates [5/7] updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 jpackage16-generic [6/7] jpackage16-generic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras [7/7] extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 459 kB 00:01 updates : ################################################## 1346/1346 Added 27 new packages, deleted 33 old in 6.95 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 366 kB 00:01 jpackage16: ################################################## 1597/1597 Added 0 new packages, deleted 0 old in 2.39 seconds primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 00:24 extras : ################################################## 3909/3909 Added 76 new packages, deleted 26 old in 15.68 seconds Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package selinux-policy-strict.noarch 0:2.2.43-4.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package tkinter.i386 0:2.4.3-4.FC5 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for gdm to pack into transaction set. gdm-2.14.9-1.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 67 kB 00:00 ---> Package gdm.i386 1:2.14.9-1 set to be updated ---> Package perl.i386 4:5.8.8-5 set to be updated ---> Package gtk2.i386 0:2.8.19-2 set to be updated ---> Package gnome-themes.noarch 0:2.14.2-1.fc5.1 set to be updated ---> Package rhgb.i386 0:0.16.3-1.fc5.1 set to be updated ---> Package freenx.i386 0:0.5.0-0.5.test7.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package libselinux-devel.i386 0:1.30.3-3.fc5 set to be updated ---> Downloading header for openct to pack into transaction set. openct-0.6.8-1.fc5.i386.r 100% |=========================| 12 kB 00:00 ---> Package openct.i386 0:0.6.8-1.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package libselinux.i386 0:1.30.3-3.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package xterm.i386 0:213-1.FC5 set to be updated ---> Package python.i386 0:2.4.3-4.FC5 set to be updated ---> Package python-devel.i386 0:2.4.3-4.FC5 set to be updated ---> Package libselinux-python.i386 0:1.30.3-3.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package tcl.i386 0:8.4.13-1.1 set to be updated ---> Package cups.i386 1:1.2.1-1.7 set to be updated ---> Package cups-libs.i386 1:1.2.1-1.7 set to be updated ---> Package qt.i386 1:3.3.6-0.1.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package nx.i386 0:1.5.0-10.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package nss.i386 0:3.11.1-1.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package policycoreutils.i386 0:1.30.10-2.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:2.2.43-4.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package desktop-backgrounds-basic.noarch 0:2.0-31.fc5.1 set to be updated ---> Package selinux-policy.noarch 0:2.2.43-4.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package rsync.i386 0:2.6.8-1.FC5.1 set to be updated ---> Package coreutils.i386 0:5.96-1.2 set to be updated ---> Package cups-devel.i386 1:1.2.1-1.7 set to be updated ---> Package firefox.i386 0:1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package arts.i386 8:1.5.3-0.1.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.14.2-1.fc5.1 set to be updated ---> Package libsepol.i386 0:1.12.17-1.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package autofs.i386 1:4.1.4-27 set to be updated ---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.5.3-0.2.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package avahi.i386 0:0.6.10-1.FC5 set to be updated ---> Package smartmontools.i386 1:5.36-fc5.1 set to be updated ---> Package dhclient.i386 11:3.0.3-28 set to be updated ---> Package tk.i386 0:8.4.13-1.1 set to be updated ---> Package shadow-utils.i386 2:4.0.14-9.FC5 set to be updated ---> Package gtk2-devel.i386 0:2.8.19-2 set to be updated ---> Package avahi-glib.i386 0:0.6.10-1.FC5 set to be updated ---> Package qt-devel.i386 1:3.3.6-0.1.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package gnome-screensaver.i386 0:2.14.2-1.fc5.1 set to be updated ---> Package fedora-logos.noarch 0:1.1.42-1.fc5.1 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: python-abi = 2.3 for package: gdal-python --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: python-abi = 2.3 is needed by package gdal-python
You are trying to install a package that requires python 2.3 on Fedora Core 5, which has python 2.4.3. The dependency error is correct, you should not do that :-) You may want to check the version of gdal-python in that repository, it seems wrong.