[Yum] Problem with FC1 repo on ayo.freshrpms.net?

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:14, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> Anyone else seen this? I have been getting the following error for
> the last couple of days or so, from ayo.freshrpms.net:
> 
> [root at softins root]# yum list updates
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates
> Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates
> This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info on a repository.
> [root at softins root]# yum --version
> 2.0.7
> 
> On a different server with an older yum I get this:
> 
> [root at host1 root]# yum list updates
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms
> Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> [root at host1 root]# yum --version
> 2.0.4
> 

Yah - the repo has got a host header.info file.

You can upgrade to yum 2.0.5 to see a much friendlier error message :)

-sv