I use up2date in preference to yum simply because it automates the process of getting matching source. [summer@bilby ~]$ root cdm up2date -fud Obsoletes file not available on server
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: centos4-Base...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: centos4-Updates...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: centos4-extras...
Fetching obsoletes list (may take a while, be patient) for http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/extras/i386/... ### Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: centos4-addons...
Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- NetworkManager 0.3.1 4.el4 i386 OpenIPMI 1.4.14 1.4E.17 i386 OpenIPMI-libs 1.4.14 1.4E.17 i386
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grub-0.95-3.8.src.rpm: There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386//SRPMS/grub-0.95-3.8.src.rpm Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found
Connection to cdm closed. [summer@bilby ~]$
However, it seems to fairly reliably get the source on the next attempt, having reliably failed the first:
grub-0.95-3.8.i386.rpm: ########################## Done. grub-0.95-3.8.src.rpm: ########################## Done. gtk+-1.2.10-36.i386.rpm: ########################## Done. gtk+-1.2.10-36.src.rpm: There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386//SRPMS/gtk+-1.2.10-36.src.rpm Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found
Connection to cdm closed. [summer@bilby ~]$
What's going on here?
On Thu, 24 May 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
I use up2date in preference to yum simply because it automates the process of getting matching source.
yumdownloader from yum-utils can help you do that.
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-October/007741.html
--- Charlie
Charlie Brady wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2007, John Summerfield wrote:
I use up2date in preference to yum simply because it automates the process of getting matching source.
yumdownloader from yum-utils can help you do that.
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-October/007741.html
Thanks Charlie, I'll need to do that for 5. Note that I use up2date to get the source for the packages I'm updating, not just arbitrary packages as in that example.
The immediate problem, though, is this:
An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386//SRPMS/grub-0.95-3.8.src.rpm Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found
and I expect that yumdownloader would suffer the same problem.
Since I can (usually if not always) get the src.rpm on the next attempt, I'm wondering whether there's a problem with the mirror infrastructure.
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