[WBEL-users] How do you create yum headers?

Vic whitebox at beer.org.uk
Wed Aug 31 12:24:04 CDT 2005


> man yum-arch...

That's the boy. Thanks to all those who told me :-)

> At least that's how you do it with older versions of YUM.  I thought
> the newer versions of YUM didn't require header files.  (Hmmm, that
> might be newer then any version of YUM that ships with WBEL).

Yum 2.1 no longer uses headers, apparently. But I've got 2.0.7-1.1.WB1
installed, and nothing in my yum mirror is going to change that...

> I use yum-arch to re-create the headers after I rsync from the
> mirrors.  At one point in time, the headers were consistantly
> corrupted on the mirrors.  I got tired of it and re-created them
> locally.

I think I'm going to do something similar.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Vic.



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