[Yum] can't upgrade yum, yum doesn't work

[Istvan Kope]

On 10/6/05, Jeff Pitman <symbiont at berlios.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 October 2005 22:21, Istvan Kope wrote:
> > So 2 questions:
> > 1. Why still I have the timeout errors?
>
> Did you check if you had a Proxy?  I think Greg asked this earlier, but
> you have not answered yet.

There's no proxy. There is a direct link to net with a public IP
without firewall enabled. Only yum can't download. Firefox works, mc
works, wget works... :(

>
> > 2. Why yum downloads again the packages which I already copied in the
> > cache folder?
>
> Because it needs headers too.  There may be some tool lurking out there
> that helps you reconstruct the .hdr file.
>
> If you want a solid solution before you can find that .hdr file
> regenerator, you can create a cache repo locally with createrepo and
> then just update from there.  Just some ideas, YMMV.
>

Those .hdr files must be generated? I thought I can dowload them from
somewhere. I even found something here:
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/4/x86_64/updates/headers/libstdc++-0-4.0.1-4.fc4.x86_64.hdr
But when I was trying to update with "yum -C update" it deleted that
.hdr file I downloaded, after it gave me this error message:

Setting up Upgrade Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libstdc++ to pack into transaction set.
Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of
//var/cache/yum/updates-released/headers/libstdc++-4.0.1-4.fc4.i386.hdr
from updates-released

> --
> -jeff
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