yum update rawhide: what am I missing?

Jesse Keating hosting at j2solutions.net
Fri Sep 12 17:21:57 UTC 2003


On Friday 12 September 2003 10:12, Elton Woo wrote:
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/head
>ers/header.info Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/head
>ers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> ... what am I missing?

Looks like the version of the "redhat-release" package is set to "Null" 
for some reason, thus yum is unable to find a "Null" directory at 
duke.edu.  You might have to force the release issue in your 
/etc/yum.conf file.

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