Yumex is weird

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 11 06:47:27 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:40 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> Hi,
>    I don't know whats going on but yumex gives this error in FC5
> 
> "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from base: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try."
> 
> But this repo "[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/local-base"
> 
> contains
> 
> # planetmirror base
> # 
> http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os
> ftp://reddwarf:[password]@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> #ftp://reddwarf@premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> #http://premium.planetmirror.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> ftp://mirror.optus.net/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> ftp://ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/fedora/5/i386/os/

Is this file referred to from somewhere else, such as fedora-core.repo?

Where is the repo definition for the "base" repo (which is called "core"
by default in FC5)?

Paul.




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