On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:07 -0500, Joshua Jensen wrote: > I and my team have found what we consider to be a major bug in yum > 2.4.1. Essentially all you have to do to trigger it is a "yum clean > metadata", then something like install or even just check-update: > > $ sudo yum check-update > Setting up repositories > (works fine) > > $ sudo yum clean metadata > Cleaning up xml metadata > 14 metadata files removed > > $ sudo yum -d 10 check-update > Yum Version: 2.4.1 > COMMAND: yum -d 10 > Installroot: / > Setting up repositories > Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://server/yum/5.00/emergency-install/i386'] > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: emergency-install > Cannot find repomd.xml file for emergency-install > Error: Cannot find repomd.xml file for emergency-install > yes - it's a known, reported and fixed-in-cvs bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174715 see the attached patch. but for a more sensible fix for your environment just add this to the emergency repo config: metadata_cache=0 thanks, -sv -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cache-fix.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 3574 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20051214/2c422562/cache-fix.bin
