On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:02 -0800, Lee Garner wrote:
> str tux wrote:
>
> >Hello List,
> >
> >I tried "yum upgrade" from my RC1 and it goes like this:
> >
> >[root@cpu-00228 ~]# yum upgrade
> >Setting up Upgrade Process
> >Setting up Repos
> >contrib 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> >base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
> >updates 100% |=========================| 328 B 00:00
> >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Space required
> >after the Public Identifier
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> > ^
> >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SystemLiteral "
> >or ' expected
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> > ^
> >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SYSTEM or PUBLIC,
> >the URI is missing
> ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
> > ^
> >Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
> >Error importing repomd.xml from updates: Error: could not parse file
> >//var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml
> >
> >What could be the work around?
> >
> >
> Try cat /var/cache/yum/updates/repomd.xml and you'll probably see that
> the $basearch variable is something like "4beta". Check your yum.conf
> and manually change the variable to "4". I run a local yum server, and
> that solved it for me.
>
> Lee.
Or install the new CentOS-Release, the new yum, and the new centos-
yumconf .. then do:
yum upgrade
