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Re: Failure when upgrading to 4.2
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John Franks <[log in to unmask]>
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John Franks <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:01:48 -0600
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I tried downloading to create a local repository and got the same error.
After manually running createrepo on SL/RPMS the problem seems fixed.


On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:46 -0600, John Franks wrote:
> I tried to upgrade to 4.2 without success.  There was no problem with
> yum udate yum 
> and I installed yum-conf without problem.
> 
> Then I did a 
> 
> yum upgrade
> 
> and many package headers were downloaded until it got to rpmdb.  Here is
> the error message.
> 
> ---> Downloading header for rpmdb-SL to pack into transaction set.
> rpmdb-SL-42-0.20051122.i3 100% |=========================| 4.3 kB
> 00:00
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/42/i386/SL/RPMS/rpmdb-
> SL-42-0.20051122.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: rpmdb-SL-42-0.20051122.i386.rpm from sl-base: [Errno
> 256] No more mirrors to try.

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