Hi Seth Thanks for the reply. No there not symlinks. The yum-arch starts off like this [root@devon 9]# yum-arch -vv . Digesting rpm - XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.43.src.rpm - 1/273 Digesting rpm - LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.src.rpm - 2/273 Already found tuple: netpbm i386: en/os/SRPMS/LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.src.rpm Digesting rpm - cdrtools-2.0-11.9.1.src.rpm - 3/273 Already found tuple: netpbm i386: en/os/SRPMS/cdrtools-2.0-11.9.1.src.rpm Digesting rpm - balsa-2.0.6-2.src.rpm - 4/273 Already found tuple: netpbm i386: en/os/SRPMS/balsa-2.0.6-2.src.rpm Digesting rpm - bash-2.05b-20.1.src.rpm - 5/273 ..and carries on for the rest of the rpms upto 273/273, where it says this.... Already found tuple: netpbm i386: en/os/noarch/wl-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm Digesting rpm - wl-common-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm - 272/273 Already found tuple: netpbm i386: en/os/noarch/wl-common-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm Digesting rpm - wl-xemacs-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm - 273/273 Already found tuple: netpbm i386: en/os/noarch/wl-xemacs-2.10.1-1.1.noarch.rpm Total: 273 Used: 272 Src: 0 Writing header.info file The header file is then empty. The version of yum is yum-2.0.4-1 on a Redhat 9 box Thanks mags On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 13:45, seth vidal wrote: > > I generated the header dir by executing > > > > yum-arch /var/www/html/yum/updates/redhat/9/ > > > > This appears to do the right thing but my headers.info file is empty. > > My assumption is that this should get populated with the info needed to > > install the rpms for the clients. > > Are these files symlinks? > What output do you get when you run yum-arch > what about if you add a -v > what version of yum is this? > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
