[rhelv6-beta-list] question about yum

[Justin Clift]

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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