[Yum] Headers Not Downloading

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 17:54 -0700, Frederic Herman wrote:
> I have installed yum and initially was able to download headers and 
> packages.
> 
> I'm running yum from rpm:     yum-2.4.0-63.rhfc4.at
> OS:   Fedora Core 4
> 
> When I run  yum check-update, I see:
> 
> yum-2.4.0-63.rhfc4.at
> Press any key to continue...
> [root at fluffy log]# yum check-update
> Setting up repositories
> dries                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> atrpms                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> jpackage-generic-free     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> kde-redhat-all            100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> flash                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> kde-redhat                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> freshrpms                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> jpackage-distspecific-fre 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> gstreamer                 100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> jpackage-generic-devel    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> newrpms                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> release                   100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 
> DCC.i386                                 1.3.21-13.rhfc4.at     atrpms
> flash-plugin.i386                        7.0.61-1               flash
> gpgme.i386                               1:1.1.0-16.rhfc4.at    atrpms
> gstreamer.i386                           0.8.11-0.gst.1.4       gstreamer
> gstreamer-plugins.i386                   0.8.11-0.gst.1.4       gstreamer
> gstreamer-tools.i386                     0.9.6-0.gst.1.4        gstreamer
> jpackage-utils.noarch                    1.6.6-1jpp             
> jpackage-generic
> libast.i386                              0.6.1-1.rhfc4.nr       newrpms
> libtunepimp.i386                         0.4.0-2.fc4            extras
> pine.i386                                4.64-0.lvn.2.4         livna
> pinentry.i386                            0.7.1-9.rhfc4.at       atrpms
> postgresql-jdbc.noarch                   8.0.309-1jpp           
> jpackage-generic
> 
> 
> However, I no longer see any attempt to download headers for new rpms.  
> I understood that the check-update function was supposed to refresh the 
> headers.
> 
> What am I missing.  How should I be getting new headers?

You filed a bug, I responded. Why did you also post to the list? Was the
response to the bug not good enough?


As an aside do you think you have enough repositories there? That's just
about every repository I can think of. Any reason you need all of those?
A lot of them are overlapping subset/supersets of each other.

-sv