yum not updating fc3t1 to fc3t2

[Scott Talbot]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 13:34 +0100, Wood David wrote:
> I've been using yum for ages, but  failed to get yum 2.1.3 to update fc3t1
> to fc3t2 because ...
> 
> $yum update
^^^^

	Maybe you could try this again after "su -"?

HTH

Scott


> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repo:  base
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> base      : ################################################## 2665/2665
> Excluding Packages
> Excluding Incompatible Archs
> Finished
> Excluding Packages from Fedora Core 2.90 - i386 - Base
> Resolving Dependencies
> a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm    100% |=========================| 1.1 MB    00:02
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 139, in ?
>     main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
>     (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 131, in
> buildTransaction
>     (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 151, in
> resolveDeps
>     self.populateTs(test=1)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 115, in
> populateTs
>     hdr = po.getHeader()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 272, in
> getHeader
>     hdr = hlist[0]
> IndexError: list index out of range
> 
> My hopes that 2.1.4 would fix it have been dashed ...
> 
> $ yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repo:  base
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> base      : ################################################## 2665/2665
> Resolving Dependencies
> a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm    100% |=========================| 1.1 MB    00:01
> Fedora/RPMS/a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No
> more mirrors to try.
> 
> Any ideas?  I completely deleted the /var/cache/yum directory first to see
> if that helped.
> 
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