[Yum] Hard Links problem

[Murali Potla]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 11:18, seth vidal wrote:
> > I have some problems though with yum. When i run it for the first time
> > it takes a long time.
> 
> do you mean yum or yum-arch?

i mean yum. When i run yum for the first time on any client it taken
around 10 minutes to download the headers. My repository consists of Red
Hat 9, its updates , freshrpms (around 1500 packages).
Is it a normal behavior ?

> 
> > When i am using hard links for the packages (because i need to sync the
> > updates), its giving "ignoring dupe pkg" error.

This problem is when generating headers using yum-arch on the
repository. If all the files are real, then there is no problem. 
If the files are hard links to files in other directories its giving me
the above error 
"ignoring dupe pkg" for all the packages

> 
> it goes through all the packages in all of your subdirs and checks to
> see which ones of they are the newest ones to make available in your
> repository. How many packages are you talking about and how long is a
> 'long time'?
> 
> > And also how do i compress the headers (-z does not compress it) 
> 
> they are compressed by default.
> 
> 
> > I am using yum 1.98 (downloaded from ayo.freshrpms.net) and Red Hat
> > Linux 8.0
> 
> Are you using rpm 4.1.1 on RHL 8.0? If not, then you don't want to be
> using yum 1.98 - if you do have rpm 4.1.1 then you really want to grab
> yum 2.0 - it's got a bunch of bugs fixed since 1.98.

I using rpm-4.1 and python 2.2.1 which are shipped with 8.0
Where can i get the updated rpm and yum ?

Murali