OK guys - what happened to YUM
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Wed Sep 14 22:21:52 UTC 2005
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, jdow wrote:
> Is it really this fragile that within 24 hours it goes from working to this:
>
> ===8<---
> # yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
> ===8<---
>
> What do I need to fix? This is the /etc/yum.repos.d directory:
> ===8<--- (All dated Jun 3)
> # ls /etc/yum.repos.d
> fedora-devel.repo fedora-extras.repo fedora-updates.repo
> fedora-extras-devel.repo fedora.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
> ===8<---
>
> yum.conf and other yum files are even older.
>
> The /var/cache/yum files seem to be consistent with an update yesterday.
>
> I have made no changes myself to these files or to yum.conf. So something
> went
> bad. I'd rather like to get it working again.
It's working here now, but I saw this last night. Turned out the server
where the mirror lists are kept was down for maintenance.
Not a very informative way to fail, but I don't think it's your fault.
BTW, I'm seeing your message in a digest, but it's about 24 hours behind
when you sent it.
>
> {^_^}
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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