[rhelv6-beta-list] question about yum

[Gary Gatling]

Thank you very much. That worked. I was able to install packages now from 
the rhel-beta repo after commening out the mirrorlist line and 
uncommenting the baseurl line.

Cheers,

Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems
ITECS, BOX 7901   | Operations and Systems Analyst
NCSU, Raleigh, NC | Email: gsgatlin at ncsu.edu
27695-7901        | Phone: (919) 513-4572 (5C Page Hall)

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Justin Clift wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
> In a virtual machine here, it works if the .repo file is edited to disable 
> the "mirrorlist" keys, instead enabling the "baseurl" keys.
>
> For example (hope this doesn't wrap around):
>
>  [rhel-beta]
>  name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever Beta - $basearch
>
> baseurl=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>
> #mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rhel-$releasever-beta&arch=$basearch
>  enabled=1
>  gpgcheck=1
>  gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-beta
>
> Also, with the server x64_64 installation in a virtual machine here, the 
> network interface wasn't set to start automatically at boot.  After changing 
> the above entry in the .repo file, the network interface also needed to be 
> enable/configured. (just mentioning)
>
> Hope that helps. :)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> On 07/02/2010 05:16 AM, Gary Gatling wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you. I tried changing enabled=0 to enabled=1 on line 5. I get this
>> error now: (eos is my own repo I made to hold rpms in)
>> 
>> I did a yum clean all before I ran this.
>> 
>> [root at vaporware ~]# yum install gconf-editor
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin
>> This system is not registered with RHN.
>> RHN support will be disabled.
>> eos | 951 B 00:00
>> eos/primary | 6.7 kB 00:00
>> eos 24/24
>> rhel-beta/metalink | 14 kB 00:00
>> Could not parse metalink
>> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rhel-5.90Workstation-beta&arch=x86_64
>> error was
>> File /var/cache/yum/x86_64/5.90Workstation/rhel-beta/metalink.xml.tmp is
>> not XML
>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
>> rhel-beta. Please verify its path and try again
>> 
>> Any ideas what is going on with that?
>> 
>> I'm just wanting to use yum because its easier than getting out the DVD
>> and using the rpm command.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>
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