[Yum] header updates

[Magnus Hebden-Smith]

Hi 

I think I'm closer to solving the problem, well finding a work around.

Today I have taken a fresh download of the Redhat 8 updates, ran the
yum-arch and it worked !  The only difference in this from previous
attempts is the place where I downloaded the files from.

Now seeing that this worked I compared it to my Redhat 9 dir where
yum-arch didn't work.  The difference was ( as you suggested Seth )
links.  It wasn't soft links though, it was hard links.


( ls -al of Redhat 8 dir where the yum-arch worked )
[root at devon 9]# ls -al ../8.0/en/os/i386/ | head -4
total 631316
drwxrwsr-x    2 504      503         16384 Jan 14 18:29 .
drwxrwsr-x    8 504      503          4096 Oct  7  2002 ..
-rw-rw-r--    1 504      503        227321 Apr 28  2003
ark-3.0.5a-1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 504      503         94325 Apr 21  2003
arpwatch-2.1a11-17.8.0.2.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--    1 504      503       1186860 Apr 28  2003 

( ls -al of Redhat 9 dir where the yum-arch didnt work )
[root at devon 9]# ls -al en/os/i386/ | head -4
total 216896
drwxrwsr-x    2 504      503          8192 Feb 12 02:03 .
drwxrwsr-x    8 504      503          4096 Feb 11 16:43 ..
-rw-rw-r--  271 504      503       1236389 Feb  3 23:58
arpwatch-2.1a11-7.9.1.i386.rpm
-rw-rw-r--  271 504      503       1236389 Feb  3 23:58
balsa-2.0.6-2.i386.rpm

The important number here was the 271 in the Redhat 9 dir tree.  This
was telling me ( I think ) that there was 271 hard links to this file. 
I took a copy of it used unlink on the file which deleted it :(  The
copy howvever when copied back was correct with just 1 hardlink.  This
now works in yum-arch.

My solution is to find a different download location for my headers..

Dont know why the files have so many hard links ?  
Anyhow, have a sort of fix so I'm happy

cheers
mags


 


On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 14:04, Magnus Hebden-Smith wrote:
> Hi Seth
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> No there not symlinks.
> 
> The yum-arch starts off like this
> 
> [root at devon 9]# yum-arch -vv .
> Digesting rpm - XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.43.src.rpm - 1/273
> Digesting rpm - LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.src.rpm - 2/273
> 
> Already found tuple: netpbm i386:
> en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.src.rpm
> Digesting rpm - cdrtools-2.0-11.9.1.src.rpm - 3/273
> 
> Already found tuple: netpbm i386:
> en/os/SRPMS/cdrtools-2.0-11.9.1.src.rpm
> Digesting rpm - balsa-2.0.6-2.src.rpm - 4/273
> 
> Already found tuple: netpbm i386:
> en/os/SRPMS/balsa-2.0.6-2.src.rpm
> Digesting rpm - bash-2.05b-20.1.src.rpm - 5/273
> 
> ..and carries on for the rest of the rpms upto 273/273, where it says
> this....
> 
> Already found tuple: netpbm i386:
> en/os/noarch/wl-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm
> Digesting rpm - wl-common-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm - 272/273
> 
> Already found tuple: netpbm i386:
> en/os/noarch/wl-common-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm
> Digesting rpm - wl-xemacs-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm - 273/273
> 
> Already found tuple: netpbm i386:
> en/os/noarch/wl-xemacs-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm
> 
>    Total: 273
>    Used: 272
>    Src: 0
> 
> Writing header.info file
> 
> The header file is then empty.
> 
> The version of yum is yum-2.0.4-1 on a Redhat 9 box 
> 
> Thanks
> mags
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 13:45, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I generated the header dir by executing
> > > 
> > > yum-arch /var/www/html/yum/updates/redhat/9/
> > > 
> > > This appears to do the right thing but my headers.info file is empty. 
> > > My assumption is that this should get populated with the info needed to
> > > install the rpms for the clients. 
> > 
> > Are these files symlinks?
> > What output do you get when you run yum-arch
> > what about if you add a -v
> > what version of yum is this?
> > 
> > -sv
> > 
> > 
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