[Yum] Error updating RH8

[Jim Wildman]

Yum built from source rpm.  It also barfs on other update requests.

[root at hross root]# yum update wget
Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 base
Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 24, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "yummain.py", line 201, in main
  File "nevral.py", line 223, in resolvedeps
  File "nevral.py", line 73, in getHeader
  File "clientStuff.py", line 173, in readHeader
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 152, in read
    self._read(readsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 206, in _read
    self._read_eof()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/gzip.py", line 241, in _read_eof
    raise ValueError, "CRC check failed"
ValueError: CRC check failed
[root at hross root]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
[root at hross root]# rpm -q yum
yum-0.9.3-1

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