yum failure

[Kam Leo]

Mustafa Orkun <moblinux at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>well,i don't have the dries.repo file there.i only have
>fedora-devel.repo
>fedora.repo
>fedora-updates.repo
>fedora-updates-testing.repo
>in /etc/yum.repo.d/
> >

> my yum.conf file (which i get from a friend) already has Dries'
> repo.here is my yum.conf:
> 
> > ##################
> > ## Basic Fedora ##
> > ##################
> >

This is the same as fedora.repo because "[base]" is common label.

> > [base]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> > baseurl=http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
> >   http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
> >   http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
> >   http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.os
> > #  http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
> > #gpgcheck=1
> >

"[updates-released]" is duplicated in fedora-updates.repo.

> > [updates-released]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> > baseurl=http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
> >   http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch
> >   http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.updates
> > #  http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
> > #gpgcheck=1
> >


You have duplicated all the repos in yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/. 
There is no point in having both.  Either comment out all the repos in
yum.conf or disable all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/.