Bug 734185

Summary: error downloading: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/headers/nagios-0-2.12-9.el4.i386.hdr
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Jay Libove <libove>
Component: nagiosAssignee: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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/var/log/up2date as referenced in error output from up2date command none

Description Jay Libove 2011-08-29 16:31:04 UTC 
Created attachment 520428 [details]
/var/log/up2date as referenced in error output from up2date command

Description of problem:
With EPEL-4 enabled on an RHEL-4 system, some 'up2date' attempts fail with header download errors relating to a(n apparently totally unrelated?!) header file for nagios, e.g.:

# up2date cyrus-imapd-utils

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: dag...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: EPEL...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version              Rel               Arch
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cyrus-imapd-utils                       2.2.12              15.el4              i386  


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...

Downloading headers to solve dependencies...
There was an error downloading: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/headers/nagios-0-2.12-9.el4.i386.hdr
There was an error downloading: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/headers/nagios-0-2.12-9.el4.i386.hdr
There was an error downloading: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/headers/nagios-0-2.12-9.el4.i386.hdr
There was an error downloading: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/headers/nagios-0-2.12-9.el4.i386.hdr
There was an error downloading: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/headers/nagios-0-2.12-9.el4.i386.hdr
An error has occurred:
exceptions.UnboundLocalError
See /var/log/up2date for more information

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Unknown; as far as I can tell, the current version of the nagios component for which up2date reports it cannot download a header file is actually 2.12.-10 (I guess this from looking at what files are available in an FTP listing of an EPEL-4 repository).

How reproducible:
How to get a system in to this situation in the first place, I do not know. On this particular system, simply having the EPEL 4 line added to the RHN sources file:

 yum EPEL http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/$ARCH

is enough to cause it.

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Header download error above.

Expected results:
Normal up2date'ing.

Additional info:
/var/log/up2date file attached.
Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2011-09-22 11:48:24 UTC 
Can't reproduce because I don't have any EL-4 boxes anymore. Is this issue still valid?
Comment 2 Jay Libove 2011-12-17 15:52:31 UTC 
Hi Peter. I was able to work around it, with substantial waste of time, and not consistently. At the moment, I do not have the problem, and of course hopefully I will soon not have any more RHEL4 boxes around either...