[WBEL-users] Yum Update Error

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:05:39 -0400 (EDT)


Jeff Maze said:
> Hello,
>     Just tried a YUM update and received the following error:
>
>         Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>         Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
>         retrygrab() failed for:
>             http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info

Please check the archives.  Access to the updates at whiteboxlinux.org has
been restricted to the mirrors.

>     I have a http://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386
> entry to my yum.conf file; it's currently commented out.  If I uncomment
> it
> from the [base] and [updates-released] entries, will it first try the
> whitebox site for updates and then switch over to the mirror if theres a
> problem?

You need to comment out the whiteboxlinux.org entries, they will not work.

-- 
William Hooper