[WBEL-users] Yum-Arch Error

[Milan Kerslager]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:55:13AM -0500, Aaron Smith wrote:
> 	So I decided to create a local yum repository for the Whitebox updates
> here on my network.  I downloaded all the RPM's from a mirror site for
> the i386, i686, and noarch directories and recreated them on a local web
> server.  I ran yum-arch and it came back with no errors.  However, a
> couple of the header files were created incorrectly.  These two
> packages:
> mod_python-3.0.3-3.ent.i386.rpm
> rpm-python-4.2.1-4.4.WB1.i386.rpm
> 
> Had their header files created with titles like this:
> mod_python-0-on-3.ent.i386.hdr
> rpm-python-0-on-4.4.WB1.i386.hdr
> 
> Consequently, when I run yum check-update, it does not find the updated
> versions of these packages.  The troubling part is that I only
> discovered this because I had run yum check-update against the mirror
> site first and then noticed that the mod_python package didn't show up
> when checking updates against the local repository.  Further, the system
> that I'm checking updates on has been updated once already so it's quite
> possible that more header files are wrong and won't get updated on any
> freshly installed systems.

Which version of yum do you have?

Try latest:

http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download.ptml

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                        Milan Kerslager
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