I discovered the yum project this morning and spent some time today trying to get it to work on a test Red Hat 8.0 machine. I compiled the latest daily build, created an rpm from it using checkinstall and installed it. I already had a current archive of rpms from updates.redhat.com on the same machine (built using wget),so I served it up from apache and used "yum-arch" to build the /headers directory and headers.info file. Here is my /etc/yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest [updates8] name=my distribution baseurl=http://127.0.0.1/updates8 The problem occurs when I try to run "yum list" to list all the packages available. Here is the output: 14:47:14 $ yum list Gathering package information from servers Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 updates Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 45, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "yummain.py", line 148, in main File "clientStuff.py", line 602, in get_package_info_from_servers File "clientStuff.py", line 308, in urlgrab File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 138, in urlopen ... From a google search, I thought maybe this was a LANG issue, but I changed my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file when I first installed this machine as follows: LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" SUPPORTED="C:en_US.ISO8859-1:en_US:en" #SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" SYSFONT="lat0-sun16" Does anyone know where I went wrong? yum.conf? Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ We drive on this highway of fire Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
