Bug 243206

Summary:	yum upgrade fails on repomd.xml
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard Hitt <rbh00>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
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Description Richard Hitt 2007-06-07 21:42:22 UTC

Description of problem:
To upgrade my fc6 system I followed the procedure at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq.  When I got to
4. Do the upgrade, "yum upgrade" failed with these messages:


http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/7/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for updates: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates

At irc.freenode.net:#fedora Southern_Gentlem suggested I comment out the
mirrorlist statements and uncomment the baseurl statements but I got the same
results when I tried doing it either way.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.0.6-1.fc6

How reproducible:
Reproducible every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a Fedora Core 6 system
2. Attempt to upgrade to Fedora 7 using the instructions in the above URL
3. Note that at step 4, the yum upgrade produces the above error message.
  
Actual results:
yum upgrade fails

Expected results:
yum upgrade succeeds

Additional info:
None

Comment 1 Nick Stoughton 2007-06-08 03:41:28 UTC

The problem is your baseurl still contains "core" ... and F7 has no core
component. Try changing /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.updates.repo and remove the "core":

#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

in each of the sections you have enabled

Comment 2 Don Lindsay 2007-06-10 18:49:27 UTC

This bug report should not have been closed.

The suggested fix is not to a file that the user wrote. It is to a file that was
shipped with Fedora 7. Specifically, rpm -q --whatprovides says that the file is
supplied by

fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm

So Fedora 7 needs to fix that RPM.

Comment 3 Don Lindsay 2007-06-10 19:19:22 UTC

I retract that last comment.

I deleted the offending files and re-installed them the RPM. The offending
"/core/" has gone away, implying that the new RPM is well formed.

I assume this means that my copy of the file was not "original", and therefore
when I upgraded to Fedora 7, the upgrade decided not to overwrite that specific
file. Silently.