Problem adding yum repositories & yum crashes

[Norberto Quintanar]

Derick I don't want to discourage you, but back in the middle of June
I got caught in a vicious cycle of trying to get yum itself upgraded
by using apt-get and vice-a-versa.  I ended up in dependency hell and
just did a clean install of YDL3.0.1  Because even after getting
everything - yum and apt-get -  to work no matter what I downloaded,
there was always some file missing that was physically there.  I hope
you can get it to work though, it'll be a nice faq ;)

--- Derick Centeno <> wrote:

> 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



		
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