yum: help getting started

[Kam Leo]

On 1/11/06, Michael D. Berger <m.d.berger at ieee.org> wrote:
> On my newly installed FC-4, I am, without success, trying
>
> # yum list updates
>
> I have modified fedora-updates.repo and
> fedora-updates-testing.repo in various ways.
>
> A sample follows.  Other variations involved
> applying the '#' to different lines.
>
>   [updates-released]
>   name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
>   baserul=http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/
>
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$re
> leasever/   $basearch/
>
> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$re
> leasever
>   enabled=1
>   gpgcheck=1
>   gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fed
>
> Here are some diagnostics I have gotton:
>
>   http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
>   [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name
> resolution')>
>   Trying other mirror.
>   Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
>   failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try.
>
>   Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Mike.
>
> --
> Michael D. Berger
> m.d.berger at ieee.org
>

The error output states, more or less, that "http://redhat.secsup.org/
..." could not be resolved. Perhaps the server was down or your DNS
server was screwed up. In any case I was able to display the file when
I double-clicked the link. Why not try yum again?