[CentOS] New update problems

Wed Mar 15 22:56:21 UTC 2006
Frank Tanner III <pctech at mybellybutton.com>

I hadda figure mine out the hard way too....hehe  Not sure why
DansGuardian catches it as an "offensive" site.  Never bothered to look
into it.

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 17:49 -0500, William Warren wrote:
> that worked.  I had to whitelist the servers in DG and it works fine 
> behind the transparent proxy..:)
> 
> Frank Tanner III wrote:
> > 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)