Yum update error

[Tom Diehl]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Robert Spangler wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> here is my problem:
> 
> root at bms me# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - CrashHat
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - extras
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/extras/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/i386/extras/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And here is your answer!! If you paste the url into a browser you will see
that this is not a valid path. Try whacking everything off of the above path
after i386 and decide what you really want. If you cannot see the headers
from a browser it will not work in yum.

HTH,

Tom