Dear Folks, Running as li'l ol' me (nicku, primary group is nicku), I get $ yum-arch /var/ftp/pub/redhat-9/updates Digesting rpms 100 % complete: pam_smb-1.1.6-9.9.src.rpm Total: 211 Used: 154 Src: 0 Writing header.info file Error moving headers to .oldheaders, fatal But: [nicku@nicksbox] /var/ftp/pub/redhat-9/updates $ ls -la total 64 drwxrwsr-x 12 nicku nicku 4096 Apr 1 00:03 . drwxr-sr-x 10 nicku nicku 4096 Apr 8 18:32 .. drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 27 17:33 athlon drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 27 17:33 headers drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 27 17:33 i386 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 27 17:33 i586 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 27 17:33 i686 drwxrwsr-x 2 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 27 07:31 .newheaders drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 11 22:00 noarch drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 16 19:36 .oldheaders drwxr-sr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Jun 5 07:49 oldpackages drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 27 17:33 SRPMS $ ls -la .oldheaders/ total 16 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 16 19:36 . drwxrwsr-x 12 nicku nicku 4096 Apr 1 00:03 .. Now the big problem is that headers.list is not being created/updated. What's wrong? $ rpm -q yum yum-2.0.1-1.rh.fr $ cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/redhat-$releasever/RedHat/ [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates baseurl=file:///var/ftp/pub/redhat-$releasever/updates/ [fedora-stable] name=fedora stable baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/yum/stable [freshrpms-rhl] name=Freshrpms packages for Red Hat Linux $releasever baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/$releasever/i386/freshrpms/ But even running as root doesn't help: $ sudo yum-arch /var/ftp/pub/redhat-9/updates Digesting rpms 100 % complete: pam_smb-1.1.6-9.9.src.rpm Total: 211 Used: 154 Src: 0 Writing header.info file Error moving headers to .oldheaders, fatal Oh dear, what am I doing wrong? -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Dept. of Information & Communications Technology Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24
