update from f11 preview

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Jul 6 15:34:32 UTC 2009


David wrote:
> On 7/5/2009 11:44 PM, John Summerfield wrote:
>> John Summerfield wrote:
>>
>>> This is next day, and at present I get "Error: cannot retrieve
>>> repository metadata (repomnd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please
>>> verify its path and try again."
>>>
>>>
>>> This the request, taken from my Squid log:
>>> 1246849843.532    628 192.168.9.142 TCP_MISS/400 1425 GET
>>> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-11&arch=x86_64
>>> - DIRECT/6
>>> 6.35.62.166 text/html
>>> Host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org
>>> Accept-Encoding: identity
>>> User-Agent: urlgrabber/3.0.0 yum/3.2.23
>>>
>>> HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
>>> Server: squid/2.5.STABLE14
>>> Mime-Version: 1.0
>>> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:10:43 GMT
>>> Content-Type: text/html
>>> Content-Length: 1137
>>> Expires: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:10:43 GMT
>>> X-Squid-Error: ERR_UNSUP_REQ 0
>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder whether the change to https is causing my grief?
>> It was. I changed https to http in the fedora and updates repos and the
>> sun shines again.
>>
>> It's a little early to say it's summer:
>> gnome-python2-gnomeprint-2.26.0-3.fc11.x86_64 from fedora has depsolving
>> problems
>>   --> Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by package
>> gnome-python2-gnomeprint-2.26.0-3.fc11.x86_64 (fedora)
>> Skip-broken round 5
>>
>> but it's having a good hard think about it.
> 
> 
> Did you 'clean' yum before you ran the update after you installed the
> Fedora 11 release package? It sounds like you did not.
I did.
"yum clean metadata" was inefective, so I tried "yum clean all" and that 
did not work either.

> 
> Do a   yum-complete-transaction   and see if anything is still remaining
> to be installed.

I didn't think of that, but there was no reason to think there was a 
problem it could fix.
> 
> Install   yum-utils    and search for duplicate entries and problems.
> 
> package-cleanup --dupes  If there are any clean them with

Did that, found nothing.
> 
> package-cleanup --cleandupes
> 
> package-cleanup --problems  will find any problems such as
> broken/missing dependencies and such.

Found a problem, fixed it, still no go.


> 
> Good luck.
> 

I removed the libflash-whatever package and one or two others of little 
consequence; now it's downloading 2.2 Gbytes. Hopefully, from the free zone.



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John

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