I run all of them and always got the following error:
[root@euripidis ~]# yum update --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 381, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self,
self.basecmd, self.extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 150, in doCommand
return base.updatePkgs(extcmds)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 673, in updatePkgs
self.doRepoSetup()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 109, in doRepoSetup
self.doSackSetup(thisrepo=thisrepo)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 338,
in doSackSetup
self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 200, in
populateSack
sack.populate(repo, with, callback, cacheonly)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 91, in populate
dobj = repo.cacheHandler.getPrimary(xml, csum)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 32, in
getPrimary
self.callback))
TypeError: Parsing primary.xml error: Start tag expected, '<' not found
2008/6/25 Jan Hutař <jhutar@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:53:56 +0300
> "Stelios A." <stelios.a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jan,
>>
>> You can download the file form here:
>> http://92.48.107.13/primary.xml.gz
>> This is the file stored under /var/cache/yum/base
>>
>> I'm not sure what you want me to upload, I am pasting the content of
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo in case that you want this.
>>
>> [base]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>
>> #released updates
>> [updates]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>
>> #packages used/produced in the build but not released
>> [addons]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons
>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>
>> #additional packages that may be useful
>> [extras]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>>
>> #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
>> [centosplus]
>> name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
>> mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
>> #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
>> gpgcheck=1
>> enabled=0
>> gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
>
> So cmp says it is same as
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz, so
> you downloads it correctly.
>
> My yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.noarch reads the [base] repo correctly.
>
> Are you sure it is this file which causes troubles? Could you run:
>
> # yum update --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base
>
> to check it? In case it is not, you can substitute "base" with
> "updates", "addons", "extras" or "centosplus".
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
>
>
> --
> Jan Hutar Quality Assurance Engineer
> jhutar@xxxxxxxxxx Red Hat, Inc.
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