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

Istvan Kope istvan.kope at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 05:52:39 UTC 2005


Good news for me, bad news for science!

This morning I tried again yum and it worked flawless, just imagine
the feeling I had... :)

But we will never know what was the problem... :((

Thanks for the support! You are great!

On 10/7/05, Jeff Pitman <symbiont at berlios.de> wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2005 02:02, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 23:06 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 October 2005 22:57, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > > > Yum no longer uses .hdr files, and hasn't in a while.
> > >
> > > ls /var/cache/yum/*/headers
> >
> > right - but they don't have to be on the repo side - yum grabs them
> > OUT of the rpm using http byte ranges.
>
> I know. But, for yum to say "hey, i've already got this in my cache, i'm
> not going to download this package," I believe it needs this .hdr
> instead of a blind copy of the full rpm into /var/cache/yum/*/packages.
> Or, is there some other reason lurking about?
>
> --
> -jeff
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