> Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 08:21:43 +0200 > From: Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Yum issues.. > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <20090404082143.640936e3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 15:26:00 -0700 (PDT), dcooke@xxxxxxx wrote: > > >> [root@boatbuyer images]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo >> [fedora] >> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch failovermethod=priority >> baseurl=ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releas >> es/10/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-*noarch.rpm >> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/rele >> ases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ >> > > In above baseurl you did something that won't work. The baseurl= > parameter must point to a location, which contains a "repodata" > directory. Yum expects to find the repository metadata files in > there and appends repodata/repomd.xml to the baseurl path prior to > trying to download the repository index file. Yes, repomd.xml was giving an error. Do you have a reliable baseurl or the contents of a sample file? > > For Yum-based distribution upgrades (e.g. from FC5 to F10) you > need to adjust all relevant baseurl parameters to point to valid > locations for the target distribution. Typically one upgrades the > "fedora-release" > manually, so one can keep pristine repository definition files and > rely on the $releasever variable to expand to "10" automatically. > > Thank you for pointing this out. Pristine sounds like a file that works. Each piece of information I relish. Get enough pieces, wa-lah, it's all together...and yum is working again. David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
