On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 08:59 +1100, Stuart Midgley wrote: > Morning > > I have a yum bug. I built a cluster based on Fedora Core 2 and thought > I might try to use yum to manage my cluster image. I have a 4GB file > system image which I install across all my cluster nodes. This image > is mounted on the server via a loop back device. I am trying to use > yum from the server to manage the cluster image. It crashes... oh, to > complicate things further, my server is x86 and the nodes are x86_64. > > > > [root@node0 ~]$ mount -o loop /opt/ftp/node.img /mnt/node > [root@node0 ~]$ yum --installroot=/mnt/node check-update > > Unable to find pid > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates > Finding updated packages > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 249, in main > (uplist, newlist, nulist) = > clientStuff.getupdatedhdrlist(HeaderInfo, rpmDBInfo) > File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 447, in getupdatedhdrlist > rpmarchs = bestversion(rpmnevral, name) > File "/usr/share/yum/clientStuff.py", line 495, in bestversion > currentarch = archs[0] > IndexError: list index out of range > [root@node0 ~]$ What type of system is this? what does /etc/rpm/platform say? -sv
