[WBEL-users] RE: might not be YUM

[Billsbrough, David]

"Mike Chapman" <mchapman2 at c...> wrote:

> Hi,

> I am having an issue with YUM. I've built a small server and was using
YUM -y update to update it ( after editing
> yum.conf to point to calgary's repo). This repo was way too slow for
me...I realize it takes sometime to update but 3
> days or more seems a little much...so I decided to look for a repo
that's closer to me, after having downloaded headers
> from the Calgary site. 

> Well, I did indeed find a site that's closer to me but I could not get
Yum to work with it. I am assuming that it has
> something to do with the fact I downloaded headers from a different
site. After the change attempt I decided to go back
> to my original Yum config..but ran into more trouble. Now, Yum won't
work at all. What have I done wrong, and how do I
> correct the situation? I would really appreciate some help here since
I have spent hours downloading headers and RPM's
> before I mucked up the system.

It might not be 'yum' that is broken as one of the later 'rpm' updates
from RHEL 3 Update 4 gives an RPM database error.

Regards,

David