Extra Extra read all about it - Preupgrade released....

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:03 +0000, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote:
> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg <at> hi.is> writes:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade
> > 
> > Will and Seth anything you would like to add to testers?
> > [...]
> 
> Got a bug too!!!  :-D
> 
> Does preupgrade work behind a proxy server?
> 
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 196, in on_assistant_apply
>     self._do_main()
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 204, in _do_main
>     self.main_preupgrade()
>   File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 316, in main_preupgrade
>     installed_pkgcount = len(self.pu.doPackageLists().installed)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1141, in
> doPackageLists
>     avail = self.pkgSack.returnNewestByNameArch()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 529, in <lambda>
>     pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 384, in _getSacks
>     self.repos.populateSack(which=repos)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 242, in populateSack
>     sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 142, in populate
>     if self._check_db_version(repo, mydbtype):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 199, in
> _check_db_version
>     if repo.repoXML.repoData.has_key(mdtype):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 774, in <lambda>
>     repoXML = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepoXML(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 770, in _getRepoXML
>     raise Errors.RepoError, msg
> yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> repository: anaconda-upgrade. Please verify its path and try again

do you have http_proxy defined in your environment as root?

-sv