[WBEL-users] yum errors

William Hooper whooperhsd2@earthlink.net
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:56:01 -0500 (EST)


William Hooper said:
>
> Joe Klemmer said:
> [snip]
>> Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
>>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>   File "yummain.py", line 188, in main
>>   File "clientStuff.py", line 766, in get_package_info_from_servers
>>   File "clientStuff.py", line 103, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
>> ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>>
>> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>> I changed back to the default yum.conf but still get these errors.
>> Anyone know what I screwed up and how I can fix it?
>
> I'm going to guess that there is something wrong with yum headers for the
> updates.  I get a similar error on my local mirror after syncing this
> morning with mirror.physics.ncsu.edu.  I haven't messed with it too much,
> but I imagine that yum-arch needs re-ran on the tree.

Yep, a yum-arch run fixes it.  Most likely when the ethereal update comes
out it will get fixed.

As far as file sizes go, it looks like the header.info I generated locally
is 5K bigger than the one on the mirror.

-- 
William Hooper