Description of problem: After 'yum upgrade "yum*"' with the current rawhide for every package already in local cache errors of that sort always show up: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/os/Fedora/RPMS/nscd-2.4.90-36.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other mirror. Attempt to rectify that with 'yum clean metadata' does not help. Files _not_ in cache download without any troubles. The above would be a minor annoyance if not that detail that after all downloads are complete one get "Error Downloading Packages:" for all packages which were already on a local disk and yum bails out. OK, so lets try 'yum localupdate *.rpm' on files in a local cache. For that yum informs "Total download size: 313 M", even if a total size of files in that directory is something like 102M, crunches something a bit, gets "[Errno 9] Requested Range Not Satisfiable" attemptig to "download" again an rpm file on a local disk and once more terminates with "Error Downloading Packages:" despite of 'localupdate'. Backing off to yum-2.9.6-1 and yum-metadata-parser-1.0-7.1.fc6 allows to finish the whole update with yum --exclude="yum*" update with no problems and no attempts to re-download anything. I did not try to check what would happen if I would not have any files cached. With a speed of my connection and other limitations this is a totally loosing proposition (and a default 'keepcache=0' in /etc/yum.conf clearly unworkable). Just in case - the above was observed on x86_64 platform. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.9.7-3 yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8 How reproducible: always
Using "yum clean packages" helps to work around the problem. You'll have to download all packages again though obviously.
> Using "yum clean packages" helps to work around the problem. This is precisely what I really do NOT want to do and I thought that I wrote that clearly enough. :-)
Fixed in yum CVS and yum-2.9.7-4 I think (I was able to reproduce the problem and have something that fixes for me) Can you try http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/yum-2.9.7-4.noarch.rpm (yum-updatesd also there)?
On a sample of one available package (yum-metadata-parser) which I still had not updated :-) yum-2.9.7-4 fixed the problem. I will try to recheck when the next bunch of updates will show up but I expect that 2.9.7-4 behaves. Thanks!
Great, thanks.
I checked with a bigger number of packages and a mixture of files already in a local cache and not downloaded yet. With yum-2.9.7-4 I do not see the problem anymore.