Yum.repos.d -- and livna? -- on FC5.ppc??

David Timms dtimms at bigpond.net.au
Sun May 28 02:04:09 UTC 2006


Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:23:00 -0400,  IBeartooth wrote:
> [...] 
>> I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running
>> FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core.
Can you post the actual error trace ?

>> My
>> /etc/yum.repos.d contains the same files as on my x86 FC5 machines, except
>> that the livna ones are not there. Would installing them help, next time I
>> can get to livna? Or is this something else?> 
> 
> I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo :
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
> [core]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
Can you point your web browser at the specified mirrorlist ?
Mod the $releasever to 5!
Do you get the mirrorlist OK ?

Attempt to browse to one of the listed mirrors, replacing basearch and 
releasever. Can you get there ?

Does your web browser use proxies to get to external web sites ?

My understanding is that yum will try every mirror in the mirrorlist 
until it finds a mirror that works.

You could also direct yum to use a specific near mirror, using the 
baseurl. Or you could:
# yum disablerepo=core update

While this may give problems if a package update requires installation 
of a new package from the core (CD), it might get you around the {core} 
problem for now ?

DaveT




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