Problem adding yum repositories & yum crashes

[Derick Centeno]

There are times when working with this list is quasi-mystical!  Rick, I
was working with apt-get because my thoughts had moved in your direction
and the rpms I had gotten were getting me nowhere as they themselves
kept referring to other dependencies, etc.

First the rpm stuff:
[root@arakus aguila]# ls
_001.gif                         New Res.pdf
_002.gif                         popt-1.7.1-1.8xa.ppc.rpm
_003.gif                         resumewriting_files
article.pl_files                 resumewriting.html
article.pl.html                  rpm
chessinstructor_files            rpm-4.1.1-1.8xa.ppc.rpm
chessinstructor.html             rpm-build-4.1.1-1.8xa.ppc.rpm
dhcp-router_files                rpm-devel-4.1.1-1.8xa.ppc.rpm
dhcp-router.shtml                rpm-python-4.1.1-1.8xa.ppc.rpm
evolution                        teacher_files
libxml2-2.5.4-3a.ppc.rpm         teacher.html
libxml2-python-2.5.4-3a.ppc.rpm  yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr.noarch.rpm
[root@arakus aguila]# rpm -Uvh libxml2-2*.rpm
warning: libxml2-2.5.4-3a.ppc.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
aeb6b9c4
error: Failed dependencies:
        libxml2 = 2.5.2 is needed by (installed) libxml2-devel-2.5.2-2
[root@arakus aguila]# rpm -Uvh lib*.rpm
warning: libxml2-2.5.4-3a.ppc.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
aeb6b9c4
error: Failed dependencies:
        libxml2 = 2.5.2 is needed by (installed) libxml2-devel-2.5.2-2
[root@arakus aguila]# rpm -Uvh yum*.rpm
warning: yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpm >= 4.1.1 is needed by yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr
        libxml2-python is needed by yum-2.0.7-3.0.yd.fr

Next my effort with apt-get:
[root@arakus aguila]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0 release [1114B]
Fetched 1114B in 0s (4374B/s)
Err http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0/base pkglist
  404 Not Found
Ign http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0/base release
Err http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0/base srclist
  404 Not Found
Get:1 http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0/update pkglist [230kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0/update release [125B]
Get:3 http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com apt/3.0/update srclist [18.1kB]
Fetched 248kB in 8s (29.9kB/s)
Failed to fetch
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/pkglist.base 
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/srclist.base 
404 Not Found
Failed to fetch
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/pkglist.update 
Size mismatch
Failed to fetch
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/srclist.update 
Size mismatch
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Done
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/pkglist.base
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/release.base
W: Release file did not contain checksum information for
http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/apt/3.0/base/srclist.base
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
ones used instead.

Ideas, Matthias, Rick, anyone???
Sincerely, Derick.

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:01, Rick Thomas wrote:
> It looks like Derick has the original YDL 3.0 installed, and has 
> not gotten the 3.0.1 update, which fixed (among other things) a bug 
> in yum/rpm.  If he updates to 3.0.1, all should be well for him.
> 
> It may be necessary for him to use apt-get to do the update, 
> though, because the yum/rpm in 3.0 was/were broken!  Sigh!
> 
> Rick
> 
> On Wednesday, July 28, 2004, at 10:14 AM, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > Derick Centeno wrote :
> >
> >> You might be onto something here, but how do I get around the
> >> dependencies problem :
> >>
> >> [root@arakus aguila]# rpm -q rpm
> >> rpm-4.1-9d
> >> [root@arakus aguila]#
> >
> > OK, you need to get rpm 4.1.1 from the official 3.0 updates. The
> > dependencies you had listed are also available there or in the 
> > original set
> > of packages. Once that's done, you can install the newer yum.
> >
> > Matthias
> >
> > --
> > Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/
> > Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux kernel 2.6.6-1.435.2.3
> > Load : 2.33 2.46 2.28
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