[Yum] yum bug

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 08:59 +1100, Stuart Midgley wrote:
> Morning
> 
> I have a yum bug.  I built a cluster based on Fedora Core 2 and thought 
> I might try to use yum to manage my cluster image.  I have a 4GB file 
> system image which I install across all my cluster nodes.  This image 
> is mounted on the server via a loop back device.  I am trying to use 
> yum from the server to manage the cluster image.  It crashes...  oh, to 
> complicate things further, my server is x86 and the nodes are x86_64.
> 
> 
> 
> [root at node0 ~]$ mount -o loop /opt/ftp/node.img /mnt/node
> [root at node0 ~]$ yum --installroot=/mnt/node check-update
> 
> Unable to find pid
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>      yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>    File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 249, in main
>      (uplist, newlist, nulist) = 
> clientStuff.getupdatedhdrlist(HeaderInfo, rpmDBInfo)
>    File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 447, in getupdatedhdrlist
>      rpmarchs = bestversion(rpmnevral, name)
>    File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 495, in bestversion
>      currentarch = archs[0]
> IndexError: list index out of range
> [root at node0 ~]$


What type of system is this? what does /etc/rpm/platform say?

-sv