how did I brea yum?

[stan]

> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:52 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:

> > > > Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
> > > > error: unpacking of archive failed on
> > > > file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925: cpio: open
> > > > rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is
> > > > not!

This suggests to me that the current package is fc12 and it was supposed
to be removed by the upgrade, but wasn't.

If you install the yum-utils package and run 
package-cleanup --orphans
does the package show up?

Does it work if you remove rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686, and then install
it from the F14 repositories?

You might have to force the uninstall if it drags along lots of
dependencies.