On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:21 -0800, Jimmy Hayes wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed fedora 3 and for some reason my yum updates is not > working. > > When I rum yum updates I get the following error, > > [root@test1 etc]# yum update > Setting up Update Process > Setting up Repo: http-apt.sw.be-dries-fedora-fc3-i386-dries- > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: > http-apt.sw.be-dries-fedora-fc3-i386-dries- > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from > http-apt.sw.be-dries-fedora-fc3-i386-dries-: [Errno 256] No more mirrors > to try. > okay. > THIS IS WHAT MY YUM.CONF LOOKE LIKE, ANY IDEAS? first idea: don't type in all caps. :) > > # Dries repository > [http-apt.sw.be-dries-fedora-fc3-i386-dries-] > name=http-apt.sw.be-dries-fedora-fc3-i386-dries- > baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc3/i386/dries/ > second idea: the above baseurl is wrong. It should be: http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/fc3/i386/dries/RPMS/ any time a url gives you a failure getting the repomd.xml file - go to the url you typed in. Do it in a web browser. if there isn't a 'repodata' directory there then it's not a correct baseurl. -sv
