add and remove software

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 04:26:10 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 06:27 -0500, arunbkn at aol.in wrote:
> Sorry, extra backslash (/) is also not working, same error 
> 
> Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
> fedora. Please verify its path and try again
> 
> 
> Arun
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Robert <robby57 at gmail.com>
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 4:51 pm
> Subject: Re: add and remove software
> 
> try:
> 
> proxy=http://172.161.432.234:8080/
> 
> with the extra backslash (/) at the end.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> Olivier
> 
> 2008/2/1, arunbkn at aol.in <arunbkn at aol.in>:
>         with the change, I have the following error
>         
>         Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
>         repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com>
>         To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>         Sent: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 4:30 pm
>         Subject: Re: add and remove software
>         
>         arunbkn at aol.in wrote: 
>         > Dear Greshko, 
>         > > I think i m very much near to it, but still it is not
>         working. My yum.conf is as follows 
>         > > [main] 
>         > cachedir=/var/cache/yum 
>         > keepcache=0 
>         > debuglevel=2 
>         > logfile=/var/log/yum.log 
>         > exactarch=1 
>         > obsoletes=1 
>         > gpgcheck=1 
>         > plugins=1 
>         > metadata_expire=1800 
>         > installonly_limit=2 
>         > proxy=172.161.432.234:8080 
>         > proxy_username=arun 
>         > proxy_password=arun258 
>         > > # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named
>         file.repo 
>         > # in /etc/yum.repos.d 
>         > > > > but I am getting following error (we are using ip
>         address of our proxy server to assess Internet) 
>         > > Component: pirut 
>         > Summary: TB76714bb2 config.py:80:__set__:ValueError: Error
>         parsing '172.161.432.234:8080': URL must be http, ftp or https
>         not "172.161.432.234" 
>          
>         try: 
>          
>         proxy=http://172.161.432.234:8080 
>          
>         regards 
>          
>         Stuart 
>         -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. 
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I would like to follow this thread, but all the top posting makes it
impossible. Please cease. Please. Pretty please. Get a clue. Ric



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