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Description of problem:
"yum update" and "yum check-update" both fail on with an error
complaining about a corrupt header on the server.  The exact error
message is given below.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-2.0.4.20040103-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run "yum update" or "yum check-update"
2.
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Actual Results:  An error message is given and update is halted.

Expected Results:  Update (or check-update) should have finished
successfully.

Additional info:

[root@norfair root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Damaged Header
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/kernel-source-0-2.6.2-1.87.i386.hdr
kernel-source-0-2.6.2-1.8 100% |=========================| 176 kB    05:01
Damaged Header
/var/cache/yum/development/headers/kernel-source-0-2.6.2-1.87.i386.hdr
retrygrab() failed for:
 
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386//headers/kernel-source-0-2.6.2-1.87.i386.hdr
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386//headers/kernel-source-0-2.6.2-1.87.i386.hdr
[Errno 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):

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I also get this sometimes:

[root@norfair root]# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
Damaged or Bad header.info from Fedora Core 1.90 - Development Tree
This is probably because of a downed server or an invalid header.info
on a repository.