<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7654.12"> <TITLE>Re: Network guru help sought please</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  On 03/07/2009 14:36, "Timothy Murphy" <gayleard@eircom.net> wrote: > I'm continuing to have problems with mirrorlist in yum. > > If I leave the 2 lines in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo > ---------------------------------------- > #baseurl=<A HREF="http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasev">http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasev</A> > er/Everything/$basearch/os/ > mirrorlist=<A HREF="https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&">https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&</A> > arch=$basearch > ---------------------------------------- > as is, and run "sudo yum update" then I get the error > ---------------------------------------- > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > fedora. Please verify its path and try again > ---------------------------------------- > > If I comment in the first line, and comment out the second, > then "sudo yum update" works fine. > > On the other hand, on my CentOS machine, the lines > ---------------------------------------- > mirrorlist=<A HREF="http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&re">http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&re</A> > po=os > #baseurl=<A HREF="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/">http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/</A> > ---------------------------------------- > work fine as they are. I know for one thing that if your two systems are using different URLs to connect to their repositories, then it is not a good measure to compare them against each other to determine if something is working or not. </BODY> </HTML>