I suggest you try coping the file somewhere else (ie making a backup) and
then cutting out everything except for one [..] section from it and seeing
which if any of those work/break...
Cheers,
MaZe.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Lorin B Pino wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:11 -0600, Lorin B Pino wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Perrin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 3/19/06, Lorin B Pino <ljpino@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I have yum working with dags and dries, etc, but I have done something
>>>>> to the main repo file that causes yum to error. Can anyone tell me what
>>>>> is wrong with this file?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> What is the error that yum gives you?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Error: Bad repository file ///etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.
>>> Setting up Update Process
>>> Setting up repositories
>>> dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>> dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
>>> kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>> kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>> jpackage-rhel 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>> macromedia 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>> jpackage-generic 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
>>>
>>>
>>> Everything works, but the repo file provided by CentOS. I am assuming I
>>> edited something wrong. I just checked the permissions, and they are the
>>> same as the other repo files. Any ideas? Will I get access to any other
>>> programs with the CentOS repo, or is everything provided through the
>>> others that are working?
>>>
>> ---
>> you didn't by some chance edit it with Windows did you?
>>
>> Edit it with another editor? Which editor?
>>
>> Craig
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> No! I am transferring from Suse 9.2, and have not used windows for a year
> and a half. I found Windows ME (Multidysfunctional Edition) to be a great
> reason to try something else! From console(after su and password), I ran
> nautilus. Accessed the file from nautilus, and edited it with gedit. If
> this is a problem, I may have to overcome my phobias and learn to edit things
> direct from console.
> ~Lorin
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