Yum on FC-3: query on repositories

[Timothy Murphy]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>> Should I specify ARCH in this file?
> 
> No, yum should figure that out for itself.

Thanks for your helpful comments.
However, I found that yum seemed to set ARCH=i686 :
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Setting up Repo:  base
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i686/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
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When I substituted $basearch for $ARCH it seemed to find the repositories,
but I then I got the same error as before:
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[tim at william yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo:  base
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main
    result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 381, in doCommands
    return self.updatePkgs()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 766, in updatePkgs
    self.doRepoSetup()
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 70, in doRepoSetup
    repo.getRepoXML()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 465, in
getRepoXML
    result = self.get(relative=remote, local=local, copy_local=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 443, in get
    checkfunc=checkfunc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 414, in
urlgrab
    return self._mirror_try(func, url, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/mirror.py", line 400, in
_mirror_try
    return func_ref( *(fullurl,), **kwargs )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 595,
in urlgrab
    return self._retry(opts, retryfunc, url, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 527,
in _retry
    return apply(func, (opts,) + args, {})
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 581,
in retryfunc
    fo = URLGrabberFileObject(url, filename, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 703,
in __init__
    self._do_open()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 747,
in _do_open
    fo, hdr = self._make_request(req, opener)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/urlgrabber/grabber.py", line 823,
in _make_request
    fo = opener.open(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 364, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 468, in http_response
    code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg, response.info()
AttributeError: HTTPResponse instance has no attribute 'code'
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I guess I need to downgrade yum or python, or both -
but which one, and how exactly do I do it?
I imagine there are a zillion things that depend on python.

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