On Thu, 2005-27-10 at 10:42 -0600, evaughn@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have set up a local yum repository server for RHEL x86_64 and > connected to it with clients using yum 2.0.4. However, the clients > show only 239 packages in the "yum list" command, and only 239 .hdr > files in the /var/cache/yum/base/headers/ directory. Yet, > the /var/cache/yum/base/header.info file shows all 1299 packages. > > This causes "yum install" to fail for amost anything i want to > install. > > I can't seem to find any reason for the 239 to have worked while the > others are not being indexed. The repository on the server has all > 1299 .hdr files. The permissions for all files are identical. The > yum-arch showed processing 1299 and the header.info file shows all. How many packages are already installed? Yum will only download headers for packages not already installed on the system. --icon