yum and IPv6

[Will Woods]

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On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Dawid Gajownik wrote:

> Hi!
> 	Is something wrong with my machine or yum has problems with IPv6  
> connections?
>
> [root at cyklop yum.repos.d]# LANG=C yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> ftp://ftp.ipv6.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/ 
> core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen  
> error (-5, 'No address associated with hostname')>
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core

Python 2.4's urllib2 doesn't currently support ftp over ipv6. So this  
won't work for anything that uses urllib2, including the yum and the  
installer. I think http6 works, though, so you might try that instead.

- -w
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