Re: Yumex: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora

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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009 02:37 PM, Kam Leo wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, suvayu ali
>> <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Jwalant,
>>>
>>> Could you please stick to the posting guidelines for the list? Top
>>> posting makes reading and replying in context rather cumbersome. Now
>>> about the issue at hand ...
>>>
>>> 2009/9/15 Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji<jwalant.soneji@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Suvayu,
>>>>
>>>> 2009/9/15 Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday 14 September 2009 06:42 PM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Meanwhile, what I did was to copy the base URL and paste it in to the
>>>>>> browser address bar. Tried to open each URL, removing last tag if not
>>>>>> found.
>>>>>> This way, it put me to the nearest URL (IITK, India). And then
>>>>>> selected
>>>>>> F10,
>>>>>> i386/686, and thus got the new URL, which I pasted in the repo files.
>>>>>> It
>>>>>> seems to be working.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or you could have just looked here, :-p
>>>>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Please confirm that replacing the base URL with the nearest server
>>>> address
>>>> no negative consequences.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you comment out the mirrorlist line and replace the baseurl line
>>> with a mirror of your choice there shouldn't be any problems.
>>>
>>> However you do limit receiving updates for your system by becoming
>>> dependent on one particular mirror. If that mirror goes down for some
>>> reason, you would need to edit the line again to be able to update
>>> your system. In your case however this doesn't make much of a
>>> difference because afaik the IITK mirror is the only mirror anywhere
>>> near India.
>>
>> The above information is not correct. Yum allows use of multiple
>> repos.  Here's a snippet from "man yum.conf":
>>
>>        baseurl
>>               Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s
>> ‘repo-
>>               data’ directory lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file://
>> URL.
>>               You can specify multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The
>> best
>>               way to do this is like this:
>>               [repositoryid]
>>               name=Some name for this repository
>>               baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
>>                       url://server2/path/to/repository/
>>                       url://server3/path/to/repository/
>>
>>               If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository
>> you
>>               will find yum will ignore the  earlier  ones  and  probably
>>  act
>>               bizarrely. Don’t do this, you’ve been warned.
>>
>>               You  can  use  HTTP basic auth by prepending
>> "user:password@" to
>>               the  server  name   in   the   baseurl   line.    For
>> example:
>>               "baseurl=http://user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxx/";.
>>
>>
>> EXAMPLE:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
>> [updates]
>> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
>> failovermethod=priority
>> baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
>>
>>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
>>
>> #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
>> enabled=1
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
>>
>
> Thank you for correcting that, Kam. Does this mean yum uses my preferred
> mirror and falls back to the other mirror when it is not working?
>

Yes.

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