Hello I'm new to yum and have some questions I didn't see answered in the archives. I have mirrored the updates for Redhat 8 on my http server in http://192.168.44.13/RH8_updates/ In that directory there are i386,i586,i686,noarch and athlon directories with the latest updates in them. I run yum-arch without any problems and it creates a 'headers' directory in the RH8_updates directory with the rest of the above directories. The server [Redhat 7.1] runs yum version yum-0.9.4-1_7x from RPM. [it doesn't like 20030203.tar.gz] On the RH8 client I use yum 20030203.tar.gz and set the yum.conf file as follows: [RH8 doesn't like yum-0.9.4-1_7x from RPM] [root@celeron root]# cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest [myserver] name=RH8 baseurl=http://192.168.44.13/RH8_updates/ Then I run 'yum update'. It shows me all the available rpms and I select 'y' to install them. All is good untill : Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/yum, line 38, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File yummain.py, line 240, in main errors = tsfin.run(callback.install_callback, '') TypeError: an integer is required Everything gets updated except kernel and kernel-smp rpms. If I run 'yum update' again it sits there for hours doing nothing and 'top' shows yum using %99 resources. So far I/m very happy with yum. TIA Kevin B
