On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 23:54, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > Okay, > I downloaded the yum rpms and installed them. > Then I did > >yum-arch /etc/src/redhat/RPMS > Then I did > >yum list updates > and I got: > [tony@localhost tony]$ yum list updates > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 8.0 base > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "yummain.py", line 141, in main > File "clientStuff.py", line 643, in get_package_info_from_servers > OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/base' > 1. your yum-arch path has nothing to do with your conf repository entries. 2. you are probably running this as a user not as root and haven't built up the cache yet so run yum list updates as root. see if it works better for you - if not then the dir /var/cache/yum does not exist - and then i'd wonder how you installed the system. -sv
