Yumex is weird

[david walcroft]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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.
> 
Paul
The file above is referred to as 'local-base'

"[david at reddwarf ~]$ less /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo"

"[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
mirrorlist=file:///etc/yum.repos.d/local-base
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1"

   david