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