trying to upgrade via yum

[Yoram Halberstam]

Thanks for raising the question... In simple terms do I need to download
FC11 tonight or can I just run yum (what's simplest so I don't bug you with
stupid novice questions late in the evening :-)

2009/6/9 Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com>

> On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 16:40 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
> <snip>
> > YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
> >   Eg. </metalink>/
> > removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
> > //var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt
> >
> > There's no mirrorlist.txt file there.
> >
> > [fedora]
> > name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
> > failovermethod=priority
> > #baseurl=
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
> > mirrorlist=
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> > enabled=1
> > metadata_expire=7d
> > gpgcheck=1
> > gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
> <snip>
>
> With Fedora 11, the mirrorlist has changed into a metalink.  It seems
> your version of yum doesn't know how to read metalinks.  Try changing
> your mirrorlist to:
>
> mirrorlist=
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
>
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