yum failure

[Kam Leo]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:23:26 +0200, Mustafa Orkun
<moblinux at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Jeff Spaleta yazmış:
> > On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 10:34:01 +0200, Mustafa Orkun
> > <moblinux at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>[root at localhost ~]# yum check-update
> >>>Repository updates-released already added, not adding again
> >>>Repository base already added, not adding again
> >
> >
> > in fc3  how yum is configured was re-organized.
> > a fresh install of fc3 will give you a  /etc/yum.conf that as NO
> > repository definitions
> > instead  the package named 'fedora-release' places individual .repo
> > files in /etc/yum.repos.d/
> >
> > What you are seeing is most likely is the result of a custom yum.conf
> > that has duplicate entries to those provided in the files in
> > /etc/yum.repo.d/
> >
> >
> >>>Setting up Repo:  dries
> >>>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dries
> >>>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dries: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
> >
> >
> > You need to check your dries entry to make sure its the correct url
> > for the yum used in fc3.
> > Note that the yum 2.1.x  uses a different serverside metadata
> > structure than yum 2.0.x.
> > If you are using a dries repository url meant for yum 2.0.x you might
> > need to use a different url for yum 2.1.x because of the changes.
> >
> > here is what my working /etc/yum.repo.d/dries.repo file has:
> > [dries]
> > name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
> > baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/dries/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/dries/RPMS/
> > enabled=0
> > gpgcheck=1
> >
> >
> > -jef
> >
> > 
> 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/
> ???
> 

Then Dries' repo must be defined in /etc/yum.conf. Verify either the
URLs in yum.conf are vaiid or that the repos are disabled.