Yum Help

[Dan Trainor - hostinthebox.net]

> seth vidal writes:
>  > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 01:20 +0000, John Fox wrote:
>  >> hi,
>  >>
>  >> Can you please help as yum has ceased to work on 2 servers. Up until
>  >> the Christmas week everything was fine then I cannot get access to thr
>  >> fedora repository to download or update.
>  >> I have deleted yum ...rpm -e yum, then tried again to install it going
>  >> through the install process outlined on the fedoralegacy website, but
>  >> when trying to download the yum-2.0.3.....rpm I get errormessages
>  >> saying that it is the wrong url.
>  >> The OS is RH9,can anyone please guide me in making a clean deletion
>  >> and reinstall of this program. I know that the fedoralegacy site is
>  >> accessable as I have updated 3 other servers in the last 2 days.
>  >> Any help would be highly appreciated,as the situation is becoming
>  >> frustrating and I need yum for installation work on these servers.
>  >>
>  > Can you cut and paste the error(s) and then maybe we'll be able to help
>  > a bit more.
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  > -sv
>  >
>  >
> Thank you for the prompt reply.
>  
> The message received is:
> "retrieving  (baseurl) package.
> error: skipping (baseurl + package) -transfer failed - unknown or 
> unexpected error."
> Many thanks.
>  
> John Fox.

How about the whole thing, in it's entirety - from hitting 'yum install' 
to when you're returned to the command line?

Having all this information is absolutely necessary, as so many things 
are in question when someone says that said program "just doesn't work."

Thanks
-dant