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

Istvan Kope istvan.kope at gmail.com
Thu Oct 6 14:44:00 UTC 2005


On 10/6/05, Istvan Kope <istvan.kope at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

sorry, here was: wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/x86_64/libstdc++-4.0.1-4.fc4.i386.rpm


> 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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