[K12OSN] 5.0 EL repos dead/outdated?

Tim Born k12osn at deltacfax.com
Wed Aug 13 19:12:25 UTC 2008


Vi -

RPM repositories can be ftp or http (for the most part).  If you have a 
look at /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo you will see files that control the 
various repositories available to you.  If the file has 'enabled=1', it 
is considered.  The actual location of the repository is found in the 
'baseurl= ...' line.  That is a direct pointer to a repository.  Larger 
repos often have mirrors, which are controlled by a mirror list.  This 
shows up in the *.repo on the 'mirrorlist= ...' line.

good luck
-tim


Vi Thai wrote:

>Hello.  I tried this suggestion but it still cannot update.  The error
>I am getting is:
>Error: failure: 5.2/libgcj-4.1.2-42.el5.i386.rpm from k12ltsp: [Errno
>256] No more mirrors to try.
>Someone had suggested a firewall issue and that may be my problem.
>Does anyone know which port yum uses to update?  Thanks,
>
>Vi
>
>On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Hello List,
>>>
>>>  Still wrangling with my yum problems on my new install of 5 EL K12LTSP. I
>>> am thinking now it is possibly a firewall problem. I have done many
>>> installs of K12LTSP from here at school with no problems behind our
>>> firewall. Yesterday I did try and add in the Network Proxy setting of our
>>> school's firewall( which I have never had to do in the past) in
>>> preferences. This did not help any. WHen I try and yum install ( from a
>>> terminal) the rpm tries to download but I always get " Header not
>>> complete" I've heard of these in serveral posts,but do not really know
>>> how to troubleshoot it?  I can of course download rpms manually but I am
>>> trying to install vlc, and there are dependencies as long as your arm to
>>> get this to install!Should I be able to telnet on port whatever to say
>>> mesd/k12ltsp download site to see if i get a response? Anyone have any
>>> ideas?
>>>
>>> Tahnks,
>>>
>>> Barry Cisna
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>You may want to try changing the repos to point to ftp rather than http.
>>
>>Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo
>>
>>and change:
>>
>>    mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-5.0EL-$basearch
>>
>>to:
>>
>>   baseurl=ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-$basearch
>>
>>
>>-Eric
>>
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