Sorry if anyone has already answered this but I have now solved the problem. It was my own (silly) fault. In my wisdom I had removed the line exactarch=1 from the /etc/yum.conf file. Feeling very silly Rob On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 22:59, Rob Watkin wrote: > More... > > I've added > AddType application/x-yumhdr .hdr > to httpd.conf. > > Now lynx lets me get the file ok but I still get the following error > when I run # yum check-update > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Unable to find pid > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - 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 478, in getupdatedhdrlist > newlist.remove((name, hdr_best_arch)) > ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Any help appreciated. > Thanks > Rob > > > On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 22:34, Rob Watkin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got yum working ok with my Redhat 9 systems using the public fedora > > repository. Because I only have a modem connect I can't rsync them locally > > and so I have tried to create my own local repository with yum-arch. > > > > My problem is that yum fails (on a fresh Redhat9 minimal install) when I change > > yum.conf to point to my own local repository. I have exported the repository using > > apache. > > > > I tested that I can get the rpms and the hdrs using lynx. Lynx offers to > > save the rpms to disk but just shows the hdrs as scrambled text. I guess this > > has something to do with mime types but I cant find any refence to rpm in the > > httpd conf files. > > > > Thanks > > Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Yum mailing list > > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Rob Watkin <robwatkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
