FYI: yum-2 on RedHat 8.0.
# yum list
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
...
[Errno 6] ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length - something is wrong
The proxy I use, Apache/2.0.39 (Unix), drops the Content-Length: header
line. yum seems to think, and thinks that is wrong.
This might very well be regarded as a bug in the proxy, rather than yum.
Anyway, with help from #dhg, a quick fix was to get yum from cvs and to
comment out a few lines in urlgrabber.py, rebuild and copy the new
urlgrabber.pyc into /usr/share/yum.
diff -u yum.000/urlgrabber.py yum/urlgrabber.py
--- yum.000/urlgrabber.py 2003-08-31 19:00:08.000000000 +0100
+++ yum/urlgrabber.py 2003-11-09 01:11:16.000000000 +0000
@@ -319,10 +319,11 @@
# header then its probably something generated dynamically, such
# as php, cgi, a directory listing, or an error message. It is
# probably not what we want.
- if have_urllib2 or scheme != 'file':
- # urllib does not provide content-length for local files
- if not hdr is None and not hdr.has_key('Content-Length'):
- raise URLGrabError(6, _('ERROR: Url Return no
Content-Length - something is wrong'))
+# this prevent me from doing what I want to do
+# if have_urllib2 or scheme != 'file':
+# # urllib does not provide content-length for local files
+# if not hdr is None and not hdr.has_key('Content-Length'):
+# raise URLGrabError(6, _('ERROR: Url Return no
Content-Length - something is wrong'))
# download and store the file
try:
