[Yum] Error updating RH8

[Michael Stenner]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Jim Wildman wrote:
> It is based on RH7.2, but with a number of patches backported and
> some additional packages, particularly clustering.  The kernel is a
> 2.4.9-e10 designation.

What version of rpm does it use?

run either "rpm -v" or "rpm -q rpm"

> When I tried it, it just hung.

try yum with various debug levels.  Try a couple between "-d 4" to "-d
10" and make the results available somewhere (put them on the web and
provide a link on this list).

					-Michael

> On 19 Jan 2003, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 00:24, Jim Wildman wrote:
> > > Cleaning the headers and rerunning got it working.  Also love being
> > > able to run it off a local mirror.  
> > > 
> > 
> > one thing I want to have in the next version for rpm 4.2 is file:// url
> > support so you can run it off of nfs/cdrom
> > 
> > > Not too surprisingly, it was not able to upgrade a Advanced Server
> > > 2.1 box to 8.0...
> > > 
> >
> > what error(s) did you get? I'm not too familiar with AS 2.1 - what ver
> > of rpm does that include?

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