Yum: Cannot open/read repomd.xml

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 05:41:29 UTC 2007


2007/6/10, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 06:50:07AM +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > 2007/6/9, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>:
> > >On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:37:54 -0500
> > >J Taylor <justay at swbell.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> "Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: udpates"
> > >
> > >udpates? Is that a typo in your message or is that really what it says?
> > >
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> > please check your repo file for updates:
> >
> > it should be:
> >
> > [updates]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
> > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
> > enabled=0
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> >
> > Same problem here during upgrade (old repo didn' work, different baseurl!!!
>
> The current Fedora 7 /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo has:
>
> [updates]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>
> This is really what you want.  The mirrorlist referenced in Antonio's
> email no longer exist, or if they do, you really don't want to use
> them anymore...  The redirector at mirrors.fedoraproject.org is much
> much better.  Trust me - I've been re-writing it for the last 6
> months... :-)
>
> Check your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory for .rpmnew files.  Chances
> are, the proper config file is just a rename away.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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Matt

you are right: but on one of my system repo file was not updated and I
had to mofify by hand.
Now I have copied the rpmnew over existing repo file and it's o.k.

Tnx for comment

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