Hi I think I'm closer to solving the problem, well finding a work around. Today I have taken a fresh download of the Redhat 8 updates, ran the yum-arch and it worked ! The only difference in this from previous attempts is the place where I downloaded the files from. Now seeing that this worked I compared it to my Redhat 9 dir where yum-arch didn't work. The difference was ( as you suggested Seth ) links. It wasn't soft links though, it was hard links. ( ls -al of Redhat 8 dir where the yum-arch worked ) [root@devon 9]# ls -al ../8.0/en/os/i386/ | head -4 total 631316 drwxrwsr-x 2 504 503 16384 Jan 14 18:29 . drwxrwsr-x 8 504 503 4096 Oct 7 2002 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 504 503 227321 Apr 28 2003 ark-3.0.5a-1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 504 503 94325 Apr 21 2003 arpwatch-2.1a11-17.8.0.2.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 504 503 1186860 Apr 28 2003 ( ls -al of Redhat 9 dir where the yum-arch didnt work ) [root@devon 9]# ls -al en/os/i386/ | head -4 total 216896 drwxrwsr-x 2 504 503 8192 Feb 12 02:03 . drwxrwsr-x 8 504 503 4096 Feb 11 16:43 .. -rw-rw-r-- 271 504 503 1236389 Feb 3 23:58 arpwatch-2.1a11-7.9.1.i386.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 271 504 503 1236389 Feb 3 23:58 balsa-2.0.6-2.i386.rpm The important number here was the 271 in the Redhat 9 dir tree. This was telling me ( I think ) that there was 271 hard links to this file. I took a copy of it used unlink on the file which deleted it :( The copy howvever when copied back was correct with just 1 hardlink. This now works in yum-arch. My solution is to find a different download location for my headers.. Dont know why the files have so many hard links ? Anyhow, have a sort of fix so I'm happy cheers mags On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 14:04, Magnus Hebden-Smith wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
