Problem in F7 with the first "yum update" after installation

[Kam Leo]

On 6/1/07, Amitakhya Phukan <aphukan at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> Joachim Backes wrote:
> > Updated my FC6 / x86_64 by the new F7 DVD. And after this, I wanted to
> > run the first "yum update", but it failed:
> >
> > yum update
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
> >
> > Can somebody help?
>
> check for a # mark in front of the word baseurl in fedora-updates.repo
> file. it is in /etc/yum.repos.d directory. if it exists just remove it.
> same for fedora.repo file.
>
> hope that helps.
>
> regards,
> amit.


I encountered this when I tried to update the F7-rc2 install. The
problem was that  "update" and "everything" mirrors were not be
enabled. Waiting until 10:00AM PDST yesterday got yum to work.