On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 11:14, Tony Mountifield wrote: > Anyone else seen this? I have been getting the following error for > the last couple of days or so, from ayo.freshrpms.net: > > [root@softins root]# yum list updates > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates > Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates > This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info on a repository. > [root@softins root]# yum --version > 2.0.7 > > On a different server with an older yum I get this: > > [root@host1 root]# yum list updates > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms > Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "yummain.py", line 188, in main > File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers > File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad > ValueError: unpack list of wrong size > [root@host1 root]# yum --version > 2.0.4 > Yah - the repo has got a host header.info file. You can upgrade to yum 2.0.5 to see a much friendlier error message :) -sv
