Yum error

[Ryan Nix]

No, because the RPMs were built on another distro with different deps.

Felix Jodoin wrote:

>Couldn't you just update YDL 3 to the Fedora Core rpms?
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Marcelo Giles <mgiles@greeninv.com>
>Date: Thursday, July 1, 2004 12:53 pm
>Subject: Re: Yum error
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>The installer said something about a missing package, although the  
>>package WAS there. After several (unsuccessful) tries I abandoned 
>>the  
>>whole thing.
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>>Bottom line, leave this stuff to the Pros. I'll sit and wait to see 
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>>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).
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>>On Jul 1, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Ryan Nix wrote:
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>>>Fedora PPC rpms won't work, however, I wouldn't think that it 
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>>would  
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>>>cause a python error.  Try commenting out the fedora stuff.  
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>>Yellowdog  
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>>>4 will be built on Fedora Core 2, I assume.
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>>>Felix Jodoin wrote:
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>>>>At first, http://distro.ibiblio.org/, but then I switched back 
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>>to the  
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>>>> official download.fedora.redhat.com.
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>>>>On 30-Jun-04, at 10:49 PM, Ryan Nix wrote:
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>>>>>Where are you getting Fedora-devel?
>>>>>Felix Jodoin wrote:
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>>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>>I have decided to "yum up to fedora-devel and ruffpack", but 
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>>once  
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>>>>>>all
>>>>>>the headers copy (yum update), I get the message (which is in the
>>>>>>attachement). Thanks in Advance, Felix J
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Message Follows:
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>>>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------
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>>>>>>-- --
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>>>>>>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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