Fedora .us YUM Repository Question

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Nov 17 15:13:06 UTC 2004


Mark Sargent wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 22:28, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Mark Sargent wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 02:24, Mark Sargent wrote:
>>>
>>>>YUM.conf code after editing:
>>>>
>>>>[fedora-us-2]
>>>> name=Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
>>>> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/
>>>>fedora/2/i386/RPMS.os
>>>> [fedora-us-2-updates]
>>>> name=Fedora Core 2 updates -- Fedora US mirror
>>>> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/
>>>>fedora/2/i386/RPMS.updates
>>>> [fedora-us-2-stable]
>>>> name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
>>>> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/
>>>>fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable
>>>>
>>>>Am I on the ball..? Close..? Need shooting, perhaps..? lol..cheers.
>>>>
>>>>Mark Sargent.
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>an idiotic question, perhaps..? Really am stooped here. Can anyone put
>>>me outa me misery, as this code in the yum.conf produces errors..?
>>
>>What errors are you getting?
>>
>>Try un-indenting everything, and also checking out that the URLs you refer to 
>>actually exist:
>>
>>[fedora-us-2]
>>name=Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
>>baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.os
>>
>>[fedora-us-2-updates]
>>name=Fedora Core 2 updates -- Fedora US mirror
>>baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.updates
>>
>>[fedora-us-2-stable]
>>name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
>>baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> Error generated is below...cheers, Paul.
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 163, in main
>     (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs
>     conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 48, in __init__
>     self.cfg.read(configfile)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 263, in read
>     self._read(fp, filename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/ConfigParser.py", line 484, in _read
>     raise e
> ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/yum.conf
>         [line 28]: '  name=Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror\n'
>         [line 29]: ' 
> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/2/i386/RPM S.os\n'
>         [line 30]: '  [fedora-us-2-updates]\n'
>         [line 31]: '  name=Fedora Core 2 updates -- Fedora US mirror\n'
>         [line 32]: ' 
> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/2/i386/RPM S.updates\n'
>         [line 33]: '  [fedora-us-2-stable]\n'
>         [line 34]: '  name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 --
> Fedora US mirror\n'
>         [line 35]: ' 
> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/2/i386/RPM S.stable\n'

Looks like cut and paste problems.

Remove all spaces from the start of lines, and all spaces in the lines 
starting "baseurl"

Paul.





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