Description of Problem: The RDF metadata for Raw Hide seems to be obsolete or missing. If you visit the URL above, you'll see that Raw Hide is advertised as being available at the address ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386 Since a few months, though, it was moved to pub/redhat/linux/rawhide. Also, if you try looking for a package which is in Raw Hide, rpmfind will fail to fetch the file http://www.redhat.com/RDF/rawhide/1.0/<ARCH>/<PACKAGE>.rdf There doesn't seem to be any "rawhide" directory under /RDF at www.redhat.com. There isn't one under /RDF/redhat/linux, either. I also tried to use rpmfind.net as the RDF server, but it still ends up looking for the <PACKAGE>.rdf file at www.redhat.com: rpmfind -v -v --upgrade --latest ncftp [...] findResource ncftp Resource ncftp is provided by: ncftp-3.0.2-1 lookupRemoteResource ncftp Get http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/ncftp.rdf Fetching : http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/ncftp.rdf to /root/.rpmfinddir/fetchDM77sF HTTPRequest returned : 200 removing ncftp-3.0.1-7, wrong platform Linux/src [...] Updating the metadata server list Get http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/distribs/metadata.rdf Fetching : http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/distribs/metadata.rdf to /root/.rpmfinddir/fetchafCK8O HTTPRequest returned : 200 netResourceSearch : hit Updating the distribution list Get http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/distribs/list.rdf Fetching : http://rpmfind.net/linux/RDF/resources/distribs/list.rdf to /root/.rpmfinddir/fetchcZnmsn HTTPRequest returned : 200 Get http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/list.rdf Fetching : http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/list.rdf to /root/.rpmfinddir/fetchOlrKNk HTTPRequest returned : 200 Unable to find the distribution owning package ftp://ftp.madeinlinux.com//distro/4.0SE-beta/cdtree/cd1/madeinlinux/RPMS/ncftp-3.0.1-6mlx.i386.rpm removing ncftp-3.0beta19-0, wrong platform Linux/ppc [...] Updating the metadata server list netResourceSearch : hit Get http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/metadata.rdf Fetching : http://www.redhat.com/RDF/resources/distribs/metadata.rdf to /root/.rpmfinddir/fetchnewmIA HTTPRequest returned : 200 Updating the distribution list netResourceSearch : hit netResourceSearch : hit Unable to find the distribution owning package ftp://ftp.madeinlinux.com//distro/4.0/cdtree/madeinlinux/RPMS/ncftp-3.0.1-6mlx.i386.rpm removing ncftp-3.0.2-1cl, wrong platform Linux/src [...] ncftp-3.0.3-1, Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>(Red Hat Linux) : 3000003 ncftp-3.0.2-1, Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>(Red Hat Linux) : 3000002 [...] Get http://www.redhat.com/RDF/rawhide/1.0/i386/ncftp-3.0.3-1.i386.rdf Fetching : http://www.redhat.com/RDF/rawhide/1.0/i386/ncftp-3.0.3-1.i386.rdf to /root/.rpmfinddir/fetchqe1FZ0 HTTPRequest returned : -1 Failed ! How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure rpmfind to prefer Raw Hide packages 2. Check for the latest version of a Raw Hide package Actual Results: Fetching RDF file for package fails; a Red Hat 7.1/7.0 package is offered instead Expected Results: The correct RDF file is fetched Additional Information:
The maintainance of the rpmfind, RDF based database was turning into a nightmare, the command line rpmfind tool is not supported anymore (I maintain rpmfind.net and can't keep track anymore), I suggest Red Hat users use up2date to keep their systems up-to-date, sorry about that, Daniel