On 08/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">david walcroft</b> <<a href="mailto:david_walcroft@yahoo.com.au">david_walcroft@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ali Helmy wrote:<br>> Hey mates,<br>><br>> After downloading and installing the freshrpms .rpm package, i<br>> constanlty get a problem when trying to do anything with yum... for example<br>><br>> [root@Laptop
RPMs]# yum update<br>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin<br>> Setting up Update Process<br>> Setting up repositories<br>> livna [1/5]<br>> livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
<br>> core [2/5]<br>> core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00<br>> updates [3/5]
<br>> updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00<br>> freshrpms [4/5]<br>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: freshrpms
<br>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: freshrpms<br>><br>> the only way around it is using the --disablerepo=freshrpms option in<br>> yum, however, i dont like this... what is wrong with the repo?<br>
><br>> --<br>> Cheers,<br>> A. Helmy<br>> ==================<br>> One Life... LIVE It<br>> ==================<br>><br>You need a base url such as this in '/etc/yum.repos.d'<br><br>[freshrpms]
<br>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms<br>baseurl=<a href="http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/">http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/</a>
<br>#mirrorlist=<a href="http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms">http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms</a><br>enabled=1<br>gpgkey=<a href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms">
file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms</a><br>gpgcheck=1<br><br> david<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a><br></blockquote></div><br>ok, so instead of doing the <br>rpm -ivh <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm" target="_blank">
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm</a> step, i downloaded the .rpm and installed it locally...<br><br>now after examining the freshsrpms.repo file in /etc/yum.repo.d, it says
<br># $Id: freshrpms.repo 3341 2005-06-28 18:40:26Z thias $<br>[freshrpms]<br>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Freshrpms<br>#baseurl=<a href="http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/">
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms/</a><br>mirrorlist=<a href="http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms">http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/mirrors-freshrpms
</a><br>enabled=1<br>gpgkey=<a href="file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms">file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms</a><br>gpgcheck=1<br><br>so i reallly cant find out whats wrong<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Cheers,
<br> A. Helmy<br>==================<br> One Life... LIVE It<br>==================