Bug 248726

Summary:	Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2007-07-18 13:48:14 UTC

Description of problem:

When I enable certain repositories (for example, updates-testing), I get
this really annoying error message.  The message is essentially
meaningless and offers no diagnosis of the problem, nor what I might
do to fix it.

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

# yum --version
3.2.1

How reproducible:

Many times when I use yum on lots of different machines.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable a repository.  (Sometimes you don't even need to do this).
2. yum update or yum install <package>
3.
  
Actual results:

Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: <repo name>

Expected results:

yum should either carry out the action, or should deliver an error
message which makes sense and allows me to rectify the problem.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Seth Vidal 2007-07-18 13:54:24 UTC

Could you post the error message in the context where you're seeing it?

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2007-07-25 10:47:06 UTC

An example on a fully updated F7 system:

# yum --enablerepo=updates install gc
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
development               100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 5.1 MB    00:21     
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates

Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2007-07-25 14:51:00 UTC

okay, I've changed the output to be:

Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please
verify its path and try again.

If you want more detail then you'll need to provide me with a suggestion on what
would be good b/c I don't know.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-08-24 05:34:29 UTC

yum-3.2.3-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.