On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:41 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > ive just installed yum-1.0.3-1_73.noarch.rpm on our RHEL2.1 server, > but when i try to run "yum check-update" i get the following error. > > # yum check-update > Gathering package information from servers > Getting headers from: Red Hat Linux Null 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 > > am i doing something wrong here? im new to yum and redhat and havnt > really found any information that is useful, i appoligize if this has > been asked before. > You need to edit your yum.conf so that it will point to repositories that exist. The error is a result of an error getting a repository headers.info file. -sv
