[Centos] Problem with yum update

support at ev-theol.uni-bonn.de (Support Ev.-Theol. Fak. Uni Bonn) · Fri Mar 4 14:18:56 2005



Hi all,
i have installed CentOS 4.0rc1, imported the rpm key and tried do update 
the yum database. The following error occured:
[root@server03 ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
contrib                   100% |=========================|  328 B    00:00
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Space required 
after the Public Identifier
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
                                                 ^
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SystemLiteral " or 
' expected
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
                                                 ^
//var/cache/yum/contrib/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: contrib
Error importing repomd.xml from contrib: Error: could not parse file 
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml