Why would yum
a) look for a totally irrelevant header
b) throw a hard error when that header is not available


Questions:
1. how can I make yum ignore this error?
2. Is this possibly due to a mistake on that site's
header.info? I cannot believe that yum would barf
when an (old) header is no longer on a site, being replaced
with a newer version.


Here is the error:

# yum -t install libesmtp-devel
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - CrashHat
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
retrygrab() failed for:
http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat...75.1-1.i386.hdr
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat... />
1.i386.hdr
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
#

here is the site's header.info file:

64:clamav-devel-0.75.1-1.i386=clamav/clamav-devel-0.75.1-1.i386.rpm
0:perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0.02-1.noarch=perl-Crypt-SmbHash/perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0.0
2-1.noarch.rpm
0:spfmilter-1.0.8-1.i386=spfmilter/spfmilter-1.0.8-1.i386.rpm
0:MailCorral-1.1.3-9.i386=mailcorral/MailCorral-1.1.3-9.i386.rpm
0:jigl-2.0.1-1.noarch=jigl/jigl-2.0.1-1.noarch.rpm
0:samba-vscan-clamav-0.3.5-2.i386=samba-vscan/samba-vscan-clamav-0.3.5-2.i38
6.rpm
0:tftp-hpa-0.36-3.i386=tftpd/tftp-hpa-0.36-3.i386.rpm
0:libspf2-1.0.4-7.i386=libspf2/libspf2-1.0.4-7.i386.rpm
0:libspf2-progs-1.0.4-7.i386=libspf2/libspf2-progs-1.0.4-7.i386.rpm
64:clamav-0.75.1-1.i386=clamav/clamav-0.75.1-1.i386.rpm
0:libspf2-devel-1.0.4-7.i386=libspf2/libspf2-devel-1.0.4-7.i386.rpm
0:jhead-2.2-0.i386=jhead/jhead-2.2-0.i386.rpm
64:clamav-milter-0.75.1-1.i386=clamav/clamav-milter-0.75.1-1.i386.rpm

and here the list of headers available on the site:

MailCorral-0-1.1.3-9.i386.hdr          29-Jun-2004 23:03  2.5K
clamav-67-0.80rc3-1.i386.hdr           01-Oct-2004 00:17  9.6K
clamav-devel-67-0.80rc3-1.i386.hdr     01-Oct-2004 00:17  2.9K
clamav-milter-67-0.80rc3-1.i386.hdr    01-Oct-2004 00:17  3.5K
header.info                            01-Oct-2004 15:57  843
jhead-0-2.2-0.i386.hdr                 28-Jun-2004 23:00  1.9K
jigl-0-2.0.1-1.noarch.hdr              01-Jul-2004 20:51  1.7K
libspf2-0-1.0.4-7.i386.hdr             26-Aug-2004 22:07  2.7K
libspf2-devel-0-1.0.4-7.i386.hdr       26-Aug-2004 22:07  2.3K
libspf2-progs-0-1.0.4-7.i386.hdr       26-Aug-2004 22:07  2.2K
perl-Crypt-SmbHash-0-0.02-1.noarch.hdr 27-Jun-2004 11:06  1.5K
samba-vscan-clamav-0-0.3.5-2.i386.hdr  14-Jun-2004 22:22  2.0K
spfmilter-0-1.0.8-1.i386.hdr           26-Aug-2004 22:07  3.3K
tftp-hpa-0-0.36-3.i386.hdr             04-Aug-2004 20:56  2.4K

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