Description of problem: Yum returns a confusing error when pointed to a DVD image on an external HTTP server. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Take the FC 6 DVD image, and put it into /var/www/html on a server running Apache. 2. On another server, create a suitable yum.repos.d entry pointing to the DVD image, and disable the fedora-core.repo repository. 3. Run 'yum install' package. Actual results: # yum install gnome-vfs2.x86_64 libgcj.x86_64 libgnome.x86_64 libbonoboui.x86_64 libgnomeui.x86_64 Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories fedora-core-local 100% |=========================| 1.3 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 870 kB 00:00 ################################################## 2931/2931 Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for libgcj to pack into transaction set. media://1161132068.269978%232/Fedora/RPMS/libgcj-4.1.1-30.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> Trying other mirror. Error: failed to retrieve Fedora/RPMS/libgcj-4.1.1-30.x86_64.rpm from fedora-core-local error was [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error unknown url type: media> Expected results: Yum installs the package, or tell me why it cannot install it. Additional info: Whether or not this functionality is supported by yum, if this particular configuration is not supported, I want it to tell me so, instead of blurting out this completely content-free diagnostic. I defined the repositry, in yum.repos.d, as follows: [fedora-core-local] name=Local copy of Fedora Core baseurl=http://headache/dvd/ enabled=0 gpgcheck=0 "http://headache/dvd" is the root of the DVD image of FC6: Icon Name Last modified Size Description ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ [DIR] Parent Directory - [DIR] Fedora/ 17-Oct-2006 20:18 - [TXT] GPL 05-Apr-2005 14:35 18K [TXT] RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html 17-Oct-2006 16:42 172K [TXT] RPM-GPG-KEY 15-Oct-2006 14:07 1.9K [TXT] RPM-GPG-KEY-beta 15-Oct-2006 14:07 1.7K [ ] RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 15-Oct-2006 14:07 1.5K [ ] RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras 15-Oct-2006 14:07 2.0K ... etc... If you notice in yum's output, it did succesfully download primary.xml's contents, and processed it; then barfed when it tried to download the package.
A duplicate of bug 212180
Yes, I wasn't going crazy. This definitely worked in FC5 and earlier, and there's no reason why it should not work any more. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 212180 ***