Bug 220395

Summary:	need valid repos files in http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruce Korb <bruce.korb>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Bruce Korb 2006-12-20 22:27:38 UTC

Description of problem:

This site is insufficient:
  http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
Somehow, in ways that are mysterious to me, my yum config got hosed.
So, I get this and I get no help from the faq site:

# yum install libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released                                                     [1/11]
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
flash                                                                [2/11]
flash                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
extras                                                               [3/11]
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
core                                                                 [4/11]
ftp://redhat.taygeta.com/pub/RedHat/fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] timed out
Trying other mirror.
ftp://fedora.bu.edu/fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4]
IOError: [Errno ftp error] timed out
Trying other mirror.
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
dag                                                                  [5/11]
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/5/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error
404: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:55:47 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.2 (Unix)
Content-Length: 310
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.1

How reproducible:
No clue.
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

I cannot update anything

Expected results:

To be able to update and install packages

Additional info:

All I need is a "base" set of files for /etc/yum.repos.d and I should
be good to go.  I've gone everywhere all over the net and simply cannot
locate a set of repos files that will work.  Very frustrating.

Comment 1 Bruce Korb 2006-12-20 22:44:47 UTC

I solved my problem by reading the fatal error messages, figuring out which
repos file contained the offending entry and repeating until yum worked again.
I do not know how those bad entries got there, but it would surely be nice
if I did not have to delve into this stuff so deeply.  I also finally figured
out you do not have libbzip under any name.  That is a noticeable flaw.

Thanks for your time.  Regards, Bruce

P.S. you should not close this bug until there is a working sample repository
up on fedorafaq or some other well-known place.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2006-12-21 03:38:39 UTC

We don't control fedorafaq and don't influence its owners. If you have a problem
with something they've put up there I think it would be best to take it up with
them.

Sorry.