On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:13 -0600, David Wilkins wrote: > Ok I have done everything correctly as far as I can tell. Nearly > everything I have read talks about how yum works "out of the box" with > FC4, but for the life of me I can't get it to work for anything. > > I exported my proxy setting since I initially was getting nowhere. > Then I kept getting messages about "Cannot find a valid baseurl for > repo: updates-released > > ok, well all the provided repo files have baseurl commented out, so I > uncommented the line in fedora-updates.repo and got this output: > Setting up repositories > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:09:39 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.43 (Unix) > Content-Length: 339 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 > Trying other mirror. > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No > more mirrors to try. > Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] > No more mirrors to try. > > I find that as extremely strange since I can put the entire URL: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml in my browser and the xml file is shown fine. > > It isn't the proxy that I am going through because I know of at least > one other person who works where I do that has no problems. did you define your proxy in your yum.conf file? the other user may have done that already. -sv
