[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.4.0 pre1 AND 4.2.1EL

[John Baillie]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 22:05 -0700, Eric Harrison wrote:

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> >
> >
> > I hit the site with links (I'm ssh-ing from home)
> >
> > but still get the same error:
> >
> > [root at gabriel yum.repos.d]# yum update
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: k12ltsp
> > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from k12ltsp: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
> > to try.
> > [root at gabriel yum.repos.d]# links  http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us
> 
> First, let's verify that the k12ltsp.repo file has not been modified:
> 
>  	rpm -Vf /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo
> 
> There should be output from this command (just a blank line).
> If you see something like this, your repository config had been
> changed:
> 
>  	S.5....T. c /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo
> 
> 
> Next, let's check the "mirrorlist" url in /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo
> 
>  	$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/k12ltsp.repo | grep mirrorlist
>  	mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-4.4
> 
>  	$ links http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-4.4
>  	http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/4.4.0/
> 
> And finally, let's check the URL for the mirror...
> 
>      $ links http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/4.4.0/
> 
> Here you should get a list like this:
> 
>   [DIR]  RPMS/                   23-Jun-2005 10:57    -
>   [DIR]  SRPMS/                  28-Jun-2005 08:14    -
>   [   ]  TODO                    06-Jul-2005 15:20  313
>   [DIR]  headers/                08-Jul-2005 18:47    -
>   [DIR]  i386/                   06-Jun-2005 19:45    -
>   [DIR]  iso/                    08-Jul-2005 18:32    -
>   [DIR]  repodata/               08-Jul-2005 18:45    -
>   [DIR]  updates/
> 
> If you can get this far but yum still does not work, the only thing
> that jumps to mind is that you have proxy settings set in your
> shell environment that are different than in your /etc/yum.conf. 
> Does your network require explicit proxy configurations?
> 
> > Theoretically = provided I haven't messed anything up ;-)
> >
> > BTW - This is a virgin install of pre1
> >
> > As always, Thanks
> 
> As always, I hope I was of some help.
> 
> -Eric

I can't run through this at the moment Eric but I thought I should
mention that this was a server install + additional packages. MD5SUMS
all check out.

John