Yum explodes when libcurl recompiled

Problem:
I've recompiled libcurl and now yum explodes in the following way:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in 
    yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 109, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 357, in doCommands
    return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 651, in doCommand
    return base.search(extcmds)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 881, in search
    for (po, keys, matched_value) in matching:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 2118, in searchGenerator
    for sack in self.pkgSack.sacks.values():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 774, in 
    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 564, in _getSacks
    self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 250, in populateSack
    self.doSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 83, in doSetup
    self.ayum.plugins.run('postreposetup')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 179, in run
    func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
  File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 186, in postreposetup_hook
    if downgrade_ftp and _len_non_ftp(repo.urls) == 1:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 679, in 
    urls = property(fget=lambda self: self._geturls(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 676, in _geturls
    self._baseurlSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 630, in _baseurlSetup
    mirrorurls.extend(self._getMirrorList())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1668, in _getMirrorList
    fo = urlgrabber.grabber.urlopen(url, **ugopts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 628, in urlopen
    return default_grabber.urlopen(url, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 926, in urlopen
    return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 886, in _retry
    r = apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 925, in retryfunc
    return PyCurlFileObject(url, filename=None, opts=opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1066, in _init__
    self._do_open()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1353, in _ do_open
    self._set_opts()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 1196, in _ set_opts
    self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, opts.ssl_verify_host)
pycurl.error: (43, '')

Solution:

The easiest solution is to disable the SSLVerify option in the yum conf.

1. edit /etc/yum.conf , (or /etc/yum/yum.conf  depending on your version)
2. Look for a line under [main] reading sslverify=1
1. If it exists, change the value to 0
2. If it doesn't exist, add sslverify=0 to the main block
3. Viola! your yum should be fixed now