[CentOS-devel] SRPMS for CentOS4

Wed May 23 23:13:25 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

I use up2date in preference to yum simply because it automates the 
process of getting matching source.
[summer at 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

<snip>

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 at 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 at bilby ~]$

What's going on here?




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