[Yum] CentOS / Blue Quartz update broke YUM?

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 20:16 -0500, Mailing Lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a CentOS-BlueQuartz box... after the recent major upgrade, YUM broke. I surfed 
> the archives for BlueQuartz, CentOS & yum but did not see record of my issue.
> 

I don't know what a 'blue quartz' is but this error:

> result, resultmsgs = do() 
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 477, in doCommands 
> return self.updatePkgs() 
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 955, in updatePkgs 
> self.doRepoSetup() 
> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 75, in doRepoSetup 
> self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo) 
> File "__init__.py", line 260, in doSackSetup 
> File "repos.py", line 277, in populateSack 
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 40, in getPrimary 
> self.repoid)) 
> TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found

means you have either:
1. a damaged mirror
2. or a damaged primary.xml.gz file
3. some sort of proxy b/t you and them munging this stuff

Check up with the repository/distro maintainer, see if they know what's
up.

-sv