problems updating with yum

[Scott Berry]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: problems updating with yum


> On Sunday 08 October 2006 21:02, Scott Berry wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I am having a problem where yum says that there is not a correct baseurl
>> for yum.  However I have turned the repo off to see if updates would work
>> correctly with no luck.  Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?
>> Also what is the baseurl for this too be?  Here is the log of yum 
>> updates:
>>
>> root at localhost:/etc/yum.repos.d
>> [root at localhhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
>> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up repositories
>> legacy-updates 
>> [1/8]
>> kde-redhat-all 
>> [2/8]
>> flash 
>> [3/8]
>> kde-redhat 
>> [4/8]
>> core 
>> [5/8]
>> jpackage-generic 
>> [6/8]
>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: jpackage-generic
>> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: jpackage-generic
>> [root at localhost yum.repos.d]#
>
> As Kam has said, there is a problem with the Jpackage repo. the best thing 
> to
> do, is on the CLI as root, edit /etc/yum.repos.d, changing the repo for
> Jpackage to enabled=0, then run yum again.
>
> I don't have this problem as I use Apt, and Apt if it has a problem with a
> repo, just bypasses it. Yum seems to get confused if it can't find a repo,
> and decides to go out to lunch, leaving you waiting forever.
>I did this I enabled it to 0.


> Nigel.
>
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