Any ETA on a version of yum 2.4 that fixes the current broken version? What else are you waiting on for 2.4.2 ? Joshua On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:47:54PM -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:07 -0500, Joshua Jensen wrote: > > I and my team have found what we consider to be a major bug in yum > > 2.4.1. Essentially all you have to do to trigger it is a "yum clean > > metadata", then something like install or even just check-update: > > > > $ sudo yum check-update > > Setting up repositories > > (works fine) > > > > $ sudo yum clean metadata > > Cleaning up xml metadata > > 14 metadata files removed > > > > $ sudo yum -d 10 check-update > > Yum Version: 2.4.1 > > COMMAND: yum -d 10 > > Installroot: / > > Setting up repositories > > Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://server/yum/5.00/emergency-install/i386'] > > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: emergency-install > > Cannot find repomd.xml file for emergency-install > > Error: Cannot find repomd.xml file for emergency-install > > > > yes - it's a known, reported and fixed-in-cvs bug. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174715 > > see the attached patch. > > > but for a more sensible fix for your environment just add this to the > emergency repo config: > metadata_cache=0 > > > thanks, > -sv > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Joshua Jensen joshua@xxxxxxxx "If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?"
