Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) on fresh F11 install [Fixed!]

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Thu Jun 18 00:13:06 UTC 2009


Quoting Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Dave Stevens<geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>> like this:
>>
>> [dave at davehost yum.repos.d]$ cat fedora.repo
>> [fedora]
>> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
>> failovermethod=priority
>> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
>> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
>> enabled=1
>> metadata_expire=7d
>> gpgcheck=1
>> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
>>
>
> Try disabling the mirrorlist and enabling the baseurl. Do the same for
> fedora-updates.repo.

yes, that worked. Thanks very much, I'll figure out the mirrors next.

Dave

>
> If that works go to
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/ and find a
> mirror that is close to you geographically. Add the mirror as the
> primary repo or use it in place of http://download.fedoraproject.org .
> E.g.
>
>  $ cat fedora.repo
> [fedora]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
>               
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
> #  
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
>
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