yum not updating fc3t1 to fc3t2

[Wood David]

I've been using yum for ages, but  failed to get yum 2.1.3 to update fc3t1
to fc3t2 because ...

$yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo:  base
repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base      : ################################################## 2665/2665
Excluding Packages
Excluding Incompatible Archs
Finished
Excluding Packages from Fedora Core 2.90 - i386 - Base
Resolving Dependencies
a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm    100% |=========================| 1.1 MB    00:02
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 139, in ?
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 131, in
buildTransaction
    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 151, in
resolveDeps
    self.populateTs(test=1)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 115, in
populateTs
    hdr = po.getHeader()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/packages.py", line 272, in
getHeader
    hdr = hlist[0]
IndexError: list index out of range

My hopes that 2.1.4 would fix it have been dashed ...

$ yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repo:  base
repomd.xml                100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base      : ################################################## 2665/2665
Resolving Dependencies
a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm    100% |=========================| 1.1 MB    00:01
Fedora/RPMS/a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete.
Error: failure: Fedora/RPMS/a2ps-4.13b-40.i386.rpm from base: [Errno 256] No
more mirrors to try.

Any ideas?  I completely deleted the /var/cache/yum directory first to see
if that helped.

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