On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:48 +0000, Sriman Kumaran wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed yum-1.0.3-1_73 from rpm (centos) on a RH2.1 AS. With > the deafult yum.conf file ( pointing to centos) it works. > > yum info > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: CentOS-2 base > Getting headers from: CentOS-2 updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > getting /var/cache/yum/base/headers/textutils-1-2.0.14-3.1.i386.hdr > getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/imlib-1-1.9.13-4.3.i386.hdr > getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/lsof-0-4.51-2.1.i386.hdr > getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/bzip2-libs-0-1.0.1-4.EL2.1.i386.hdr > getting /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/logrotate-0-3.5.9-2.i386.hdr > > But when I change it to our yum server (works fine for AS4), it fails > with: > > yum info > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux 2.1AS - i386 base > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "yummain.py", line 144, in main > File "clientStuff.py", line 688, in get_package_info_from_servers > File "clientStuff.py", line 128, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad > ValueError: unpack list of wrong size > > Some thing I am missing for RH 2.1 AS? > nope - it just means one of your repositories has a damaged or malformed headers.info file in the headers directory. -sv
