rpmfind: Error fetching <foo> metadata

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From: Ben Liblit (liblit@cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 11 1998 - 15:05:39 EDT


I am trying to use rpmfind-0.98 to update *all* packages installed on my
box. This may be an abuse of the tool, but the command I'm using is:

    rpmfind --latest `rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' | sort -u`

Things work for the first thirty packages or so. After that, though,
all remaining packages produce errors of the following form:

    Error fetching <foo> metadata

Toward the end of the run, I also receive several of the following
errors:

    rpmFetchDistribList: failed to grab distrib list

Is the server end disconnecting me after some maximum number of
requests? Is this a horrible misuse of the tool for which my
electricity privileges should be revoked? Or is there a bug somewhere?


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