ydl-g] Re: apt-get/yum (was Re: yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #923 - Mess 3; yum)

[Charles McCallum]

As an addendum:  'yum clean headers' did absolutely nothing for me.  I  
tried deleting any header(s) it complained about, but I still get this  
sort of thing:

Gathering package information from servers
Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 update
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
getting  
/var/cache/yum/updates/headers/httpd-manual-0-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr
ERROR: Url Return no Content-Length  - something is wrong
URL:  
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/update/headers/ 
httpd-manual-0-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr


Does this mean it is a problem at my end or at ftp.yellowdoglinux.com?   
That is what is not clear to me.  I'm not having any problems using a  
browser to access this URL at any time.

Cheers,

Mike
On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 20:31 US/Pacific, R P Herrold wrote:

> What's the confusion? -- There was a retrieve error, and file:
>     /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/httpd-devel-0-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr
> is corrupt.  The yum program noted this, and stopped, as
> the issue is outside its scope.  lLater versions will retry
> a couple more times, but if the remote server is congested,
> there is little to be done locally.  It also has a rather
> nice man page.
>
> The yum man page notes the option:
>
>        yum clean headers
>               Eliminate all of the files  which  yum  uses  to   
> determine  the
>               remote  availablility  of packages. Using this option  
> will force
>               yum to download all the headers the next time it is run.
>
> and at that point it should retrieve the headers if there are
> not issues with access to the remote server.
>
> or you can manually remove just the damaged header
>    rm /var/cache/yum/updates/headers/httpd-devel-0-2.0.40-21.3a.ppc.hdr
> and save a bit of time.
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