"rpm -q yum=yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90 cat yum.conf= # See the yum.conf(5) man page for information the syntax of this file, # including failover setup. [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 exclude=kernel* [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch gpgcheck=1 [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch gpgcheck=1 Regards, John Fox. > > ______________________________________________________________________ Here from testing - which works properly: $ rpm -q yum yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90 /etc/yum.conf contains (the failover addresses commented out for testing): [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch/ # http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch/ # http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/os/ gpgcheck=1 [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ # http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ # http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/yum/updates/ gpgcheck=1 $ yum -d 5 update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/base Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/os/i386/ failover: path = headers/header.info headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/base/header.info Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - updates CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/updates Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/9/updates/i386/ failover: path = headers/header.info headerinfofn: /var/cache/yum/updates/header.info Finding updated packages I suggest: rm -rf /var/cache/yum/* and put a trailing slash at the end of each baseurl entry (just to be sure). As being Australian I recommend setting up the Australian mirror servers in yum.conf and maybe the fedoralegacy.org main server as a failover baseurl. -------------------------------------------- Hi, sorry about the html I thought I was sending text, so I hope that this is in text. I followed the instructions above but I am still getting the original error message. Regards, John fox. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
