Problem with yum

[david walcroft]

Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I've just installed FC3 on my desktop machine and have attempted to
> update with yum.  Some packages would install/update OK while others
> would complain that there was no public GPG key available.
> 
> I've added GPG keys per instructions at http://www.fedorafaq.org and
> even have commented out the gpgcheck lines in my yum.conf downloaded
> from http://www.fedorafaq as well.
> 
> That was issue #1.
> 
> Since then I have installed yumextender as well, per a post I saw on
> this list.  Looks and works good, but of course was suffering the same
> errors as when using yum from console.
> 
> Something has since gone awry as I cannot update yum and yumextender
> will no longer start since I changes some repos.  I get the following:
> [root at localhost etc]# yum check-update
> not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - None
> Setting up Repo:  livna-stable
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00
> Setting up Repo:  fedora-unstable
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  903 B
> 00:00
> Setting up Repo:  fedora-stable
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  903 B
> 00:00
> Setting up Repo:  livna-unstable
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00
> Setting up Repo:  updates-released
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00
> Setting up Repo:  livna-testing
> repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B
> 00:00
> Setting up Repo:  base
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
> 
> 
> My yum.conf file mentions that base repos are located
> at /etc/yum.conf.d/ but this directory isn't present currently on my
> system.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is to select repositories that will hopefully not
> conflict while at the same time make use of bleeding-edge packages where
> possible.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
Yum has two files in /etc,'/etc/yum.conf' and '/etc/yum.repos.d',repo's
generally are placed in yum.repos.d you will find your repo [base] 
there. Test the baseurl and adjust to suit.

   david