up2date not working

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 07:25 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 23:00 -0700, Ian Puleston wrote:
> > Sorry, screwed up the subject line. up2date NOT working
> > 
> > On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 22:57 -0700, Ian Puleston wrote:
> 
> > > An HTTP error occurred:
> > > URL:
> > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386//headers/header.info
> > > Status Code: 404
> > > Error Message: Not Found
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Looking at that server, there is no headers directory under i386. Does
> > > some configuration need changing somewhere?
> 
> Yep, noticed that too, as of a couple days ago.  It seems the headers
> aren't there.  You *can* still use at least up2date if you add a line
> that uses the dir structure and goes straight to the RPM dir instead of
> using the headers.  Takes just a tad longer for it to compare what is
> new or not.
> 
> dir Rawhide /path/to/rawhide/RPMS/
> 

up2date no  longer has to use the old yum headers hierarchy - it can use
the repodata hierarchy. The goal is to get rid of duplicate copies of
the package metadata.

-sv