Yum repo grief

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:44:17AM -0400, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> Michael, thanks for the response:
> 
> On Monday 07 May 2007 5:57 pm, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > What is in /var/log/up2date? That would shed a lot more light on the
> > situation.
> >
> 
> I wish it did.  Here's the output
> 
> [Tue May  8 08:36:55 2007] up2date availablePackageList from network
> [Tue May  8 08:36:58 2007] up2date
> An HTTP error occurred:
> URL: http://linux.dell.com//yum/software/el3/headers/header.info
> Status Code: 404
> Error Message: Not Found
> 
> As you can see, up2date claims that header.info isn't found.  But, of course, 
> we know it's there.

So, is this 100% reproduceable? It may have been some sort of
intermittent thing.

Are the versions of 'yum' identical across all the machines? Are you
using any proxy? Which version of the 'dell-repository' RPM do you have
installed?

btw, I've made a small adjustment to get rid of the extra '/', but I
dont think that is the fix.

> You're right, of course.  You'd think someone with my level of experience 
> would know better.  

Well, that's what we have mailing lists and google for... 

> But, hey, one's never too old to learn :-)  .

Then you are ok in my book. :)

> All the above having been said, any idea as to how I might fix this?  I 
> haven't a clue.

Nothing other than the above.
--
Michael