[CentOS] New update problems

[Frank Tanner III]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:17 -0500, William Warren wrote:
> yum apparently still can't cope with transparent proxies.  I tried the 
> following and got the  yum http behind proxy error:
> 
> Is there an ftp version of the mirrorlist or are those of us that have 
> to use transparent proxies stuck without this new feature?
> 
> 
> 
> [root at joshua ~]# yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.3 MB    03:07
> dag       : ################################################## 3832/3832
> Added 72 new packages, deleted 5 old in 9.48 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  75 kB    00:00
> update    : ################################################## 185/185
> Added 30 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.96 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for yum-plugin-fastestmirror to pack into 
> transaction set.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://styx.biochem.wfubmc.edu/mirror/CentOS/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://centos.mirror.nac.net/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://yum.math.hmc.edu/os/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|   43 B    00:00
> http://mirror.trouble-free.net/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://updates.interworx.info/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> yum-plugin-fastestmirror- 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
> http://centos.neoservers.com/4/extras/i386/RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm: 
> [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: RPMS/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-0.2.4-3.c4.noarch.rpm from 
> extras: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> [root at joshua ~]#
> 

I am using Yum behind a transparent Squid proxy and it works great for
me.  I am also using DansGuardian.  One thing I *DID* have to do was to
add an exception IP address for my CentOS box in the DansGuardian access
lists.
-- 
Frank Tanner III
(pctech at mybellybutton.com)