Yum error

[Marcelo Giles]

I agree here. I think Fedora won't work out-of-the-box. I've tried to  
install Fedora Core 2 PPC and failed. I was encouraged by this article  
http://osdir.com/Article833.phtml where it said it could be done.

I managed to download the whole RPMS dir (almost 2 gigs, several  
hours...), copied it over an NFS volume on a Mac OS X box, burned an  
ISO boot image for PPC, managed to boot 1st stage, select NFS as  
startup method, booted 2nd stage (in X GUI), selected keyboard, mouse,  
screen, partitioned with Druid, selected packages, started installation  
and... failed miserably.
By comparison, installing Gentoo is a picnic.

The installer said something about a missing package, although the  
package WAS there. After several (unsuccessful) tries I abandoned the  
whole thing.

Bottom line, leave this stuff to the Pros. I'll sit and wait to see  
what the guys at Terrasoft come with in YDL v4. I guess that by this  
time, they've already figured out how to make Fedora work on PPC  
(although it must not have been that easy for them, either, according  
to the rumours, they would have had it ready by mid-June).

On Jul 1, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Ryan Nix wrote:

> Fedora PPC rpms won't work, however, I wouldn't think that it would  
> cause a python error.  Try commenting out the fedora stuff.  Yellowdog  
> 4 will be built on Fedora Core 2, I assume.
>
> Felix Jodoin wrote:
>
>> At first, http://distro.ibiblio.org/, but then I switched back to the  
>>  official download.fedora.redhat.com.
>>
>> On 30-Jun-04, at 10:49 PM, Ryan Nix wrote:
>>
>>> Where are you getting Fedora-devel?
>>> Felix Jodoin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I have decided to "yum up to fedora-devel and ruffpack", but once  
>>>> all
>>>> the headers copy (yum update), I get the message (which is in the
>>>> attachement). Thanks in Advance, Felix J
>>>>
>>>> Message Follows:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>> -- --
>>>>
>>>> Gathering package information from servers
>>>> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
>>>> Getting headers from: Fedora Core Development
>>>> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux Ruffpack
>>>> Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
>>>> Finding updated packages
>>>> Downloading needed headers
>>>> Resolving dependencies
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 44, in ?
>>>>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>>>  File "yummain.py", line 202, in main
>>>>  File "nevral.py", line 263, in resolvedeps
>>>>  File "archwork.py", line 63, in bestarch
>>>> IndexError: list index out of range