yum -c /etc/yum.rawhide check-update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Rawhide - i386 - Rawhide AFAIS, the rawhide i386 yum repository is broken/inconsistent: # yum -c /etc/yum.rawhide check-update Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers getting /var/cache/yum/rawhide/headers/rpmdb-fedora-1-1-0.20031104.i386.hdr retrygrab() failed for: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/headers/rpmdb-fedora-1-1-0.20031104.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/rpmdb-fedora-1-1-0.20031104.i386.hdr [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Apparently yum is right, this file doesn't seem to exist. Ralf