At 3:09 PM -0400 7/17/06, Beartooth wrote: >On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:04:09 +1000, David Timms wrote: ... >You mean this? : > >[root@localhost btth]# yum update >Loading "installonlyn" plugin >Setting up Update Process >Setting up repositories >core [1/3] >http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/os/repodata/repom >d.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> >Trying other mirror. <http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/os/repodata/repom d.xml> works for me. (The link above as deduced by my email reader included the trailing colon, so it didn't work.) Try the link with wget (man wget). >Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core >failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. >Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors >to try. >[root@localhost btth]# > >>> I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo : >>> >>> [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo >>> [core] >>> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch >>> >>>#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$ba >>>search/os/ >>> >>>mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever >> >>>Can you point your web browser at the specified mirrorlist ? > >The baseurl gets me a 404 from Dillo; so does the URL after it -- but ... > >> Mod the $releasever to 5! >> Do you get the mirrorlist OK ? > >Then I did, yes. >> >> Attempt to browse to one of the listed mirrors, replacing basearch and >> releasever. Can you get there > >What do I put for basearch? Just ppc didn't work. Changing only >$releasever to 5 doesn't solve it. ... According to the link above, both your basearch and releasever are correct, as they became "ppc" and "5" and the link worked for me. You seem to have some other issue. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
