yum fails with Could not open local rpm file

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 17:02 +0100, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Starting from about a week ago my yum update fails. I have the same
>issue as described in:
>http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2004-December/000488.html
>
>It seems that when there is a repo without signatures and it tries to
>install a package from there it fails.
>
>I get:
><snip>
>Total download size: 254 M
>Is this ok [y/N]: y
>Downloading Packages:
>(1/96): python-twisted-1.  97% |======================== | 2.6 MB
>00:01 ETA warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
>key ID 30c9ecf8
>(1/96): python-twisted-1. 100% |=========================| 2.7 MB
>01:45
>Could not open local rpm
>file: //var/cache/yum/development/packages/python-twisted-1.3.0-3.i386.rpm
>
>then it aborts
>I tried a yum clean all but that didn't help

it has to do with an odd bug b/t rpm in devel and yum. it's been fixed
in cvs of yum, it'll be out in the next update to yum in rawhide.

-sv