[Yum] using yum
seth vidal
skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Mar 17 18:51:25 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:41 -0500, Nick Smith wrote:
> ive just installed yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm on our RHEL2.1 server,
> but when i try to run "yum check-update" i get the following error.
>
> # yum check-update
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux Null base
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
> yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
> File "yummain.py", line 144, in main
> File "clientStuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers
> File "clientStuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
> am i doing something wrong here? im new to yum and redhat and havnt
> really found any information that is useful, i appoligize if this has
> been asked before.
>
You need to edit your yum.conf so that it will point to repositories
that exist.
The error is a result of an error getting a repository headers.info
file.
-sv
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