On 9/27/05, Joe Landman <landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > linux:/opt/finishing/rpms/yum-x86_64 # yum update > Error: Bad repository file ///etc/yum.repos.d/main.repo, no repo stanzas. > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > No Repositories Available to Set Up > Reading repository metadata in from local files > No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion > > My repo file looks like this: > > linux:/opt/finishing/rpms/yum-x86_64 # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/main.repo > [main] > gpgcheck=0 > name=SuSE Linux 9.3 > baseurl=ftp://192.168.0.1/suse > <snip lots of useful troubleshooting> > What is strange is that this same config works on another machine using > a different repository without this error > First, you've done a good job of hunting down common problems, so kudos to you for that. Are you sure that the configuration is the same? I think that by naming your repo "main" you have confused yum. On my system I have two files: /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo The /etc/yum.conf file contains a [main] section which includes a variety of options that are used by all of my other repositories. The CentOS-Base.repo file is the file that actually points to my repository. In short, I think that you could fix your problem by changing from [main] to [somethingelse] in your main.repo file. There is lots more fun information on this in "man yum.conf" and http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/ManYumConf Regards, Greg
