Yumex is weird

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri May 12 01:34:30 UTC 2006


david walcroft wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>    I don't know whats going on but yumex gives this error in FC5
>>>
>>> "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
>>> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors 
>>> to try."
>>>
>>> But this repo "[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo vim 
>>> /etc/yum.repos.d/local-base"
>>>
>>> contains
>>>
>>> # planetmirror base
>>> # 
>>> http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os 
>>>
>>> ftp://reddwarf:[password]@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
>>>
>>> #ftp://reddwarf@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
>>>
>>> #http://premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
>>>
>>> ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
>>>
>>> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ 
>>>
>>> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>>> ftp://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>>> ftp://ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/fedora/5/i386/os/
>>
>> Is this file referred to from somewhere else, such as fedora-core.repo?
>>
>> Where is the repo definition for the "base" repo (which is called "core"
>> by default in FC5)?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Paul
> The file above is referred to as 'local-base'
>
> "[david at reddwarf ~]$ less /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo"
>
> "[base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> mirrorlist=file:///etc/yum.repos.d/local-base
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1"
>
>   david
>
I had a similar problem, fixed it with a removal of just about 
everything in /var/cache/yum/reponame.  It took about 20 minutes to dl 
it all from scratch, but it fixed it.

-- 
Cheers, Gene





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