Yum error

[Felix Jodoin]

Couldn't you just update YDL 3 to the Fedora Core rpms?

----- Original Message -----
From: Marcelo Giles <mgiles@greeninv.com>
Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 12:53 pm
Subject: Re: Yum error

> 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
> 
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