yum installs (aka Who framed 'the site' ?!?!?! ;) )

[Giandomenico De Tullio]

On 26/07/2004 05:54:28, John Dangler wrote:

[.....]
> >Wayne~
> >Thanks for the reply.  I tried getting to the dag repository and got
> this
> >message:
> >Damaged or Bad header.info from Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
> >This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header. 
> info
> on a
> >repository.
[....]
> 
> I went to the dag site, and I can access the header and the RPMS
> directories, so I'm not sure why yum isn't getting there...


[userid at host apt.sw.be]# md5sum */*/*/*/*/*/*
9a540cfd35d4f9ddd1437ca43a096b3d  fedora/2/en/i386/dag/headers/header. 
info
2397997a58cc1244a63c806276e37c2d  redhat/fc2/en/i386/dag/headers/ 
header.info

uhm .. two different files ?
Doesn't redhat/fc2/ is symlink to fedora/2/ (or fedora/$releasever/   
thing) ???

xxd of fedora/2/ .... /header.info

0000000: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................

uhmmm ... Houston, we are a problem ;)

... and now .. from a yum check-update:

Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
00:00
perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
00:00
perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
00:00
perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
00:00
perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
00:00
perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20 100% |=========================| 2.0 kB     
00:00
retrygrab() failed for:
   
http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/core/2/i386/dries//headers/perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20-1.1.fc2.dries.i386.hdr
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file  
http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/core/2/i386/dries//headers/perl-Inline-Python-0-0.20-1.1.fc2.dries.i386.hdr
[Errno -1] Header cannot be opened or does not match perl-Inline- 
Python, i386.

( ... TWO problems !?  ;p)