cvs missing parts and up2date and yum failures

[Jude DaShiell]

I tried setting up cvs on yarrow and couldn't find cvsinit script anywhere 
on the system and this was a custom type install with everything 
installed.  Some of cvs was on the system, but I'm wondering if cvsinit is 
even in the source rpms.  yum just complains about bad headers and won't 
allow me to clean them off the machine and the servers are gone for that 
updates install route.  The up2date servers are not down, but cracked 
packages may be on some of those mirrors.  I can't be sure about this 
because although tcl-html new version I forget the number consistently 
fails its gpg test, and mailman new version did a couple times last night 
other packages above them did not.  I have a broadband cable connection 
though and suspect it of poor transmission quality because it could never 
successfully download disc3.iso or disc4.iso for tettnang from the 
linux-speakup.org source which is where us screen reader users get our 
copies of Linux operating systems most of the time.  I used rsync to 
synchronize downloads and though rsync said it was successful the media 
check failed on both discs consistently.  There was a new version of rsync 
downloaded in the batch of updates, so I'll try those downloads again and 
see if better results can be had.