problems using Yum

[Mark Weaver]

Rick Lim wrote:
> I am trying to use Yum but I get -
> 
> [root at fedorarouter ~]# yum update yum
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repo:  base
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Setting up Repo:  updates-released
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> 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 78, in doRepoSetup
>     self.doSackSetup()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 93, in
> doSackSetup
>     self.repos.populateSack()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 203, in
> populateSack
>     dobj = repo.cacheHandler.getPrimary(xml, csum)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 103, in
> getPrimary
>     return self._getGeneric('metadata', location, checksum)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 90, in
> _getGeneric
>     databank = self._unpickle(piklfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/mdcache.py", line 62, in
> _unpickle
>     obj = cPickle.load(infh)
> EOFError
> [root at fedorarouter ~]#
> 
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this??
> 

yes... forget about yum cause its a genuine pain in the backside and not 
worth your effort. Apt works much better and doesn't complain stupidly 
about things it "should" know how to do without the amount of messauging 
that yum takes to do the simplest things.

-- 
Mark
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