noarch rpms and yum

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 00:59, Jim Cornette wrote:
> I was trying to use yum-2.0.4-5 to upgrade some packages and I always 
> seem to get this sort of error.
> 
> Getting python-optik-1.4.1-4.noarch.rpm
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   
> ftp://anymirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development//s390/Fedora/RPMS/python-optik-1.4.1-4.noarch.rpm
> 
> I then tried using up2date and the programs installed correctly.
> 
> Is this a configuration problem or a problem with the current way that 
> yum resolves noarch rpms?

most likely the any mirror is not grabbing the s390 rpms.

the trouble is you're using the global development repository and not
the specific one for your architecture.

-sv