Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 344781
yum fails on yum.conf with ftp baseurl
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:59:57 EST
Description of problem: Yum refuses to parse ftp url as base url in yum.conf (Tell me I can't type!) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q yum yum-3.2.5-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert ftp url and enable baseurl in yum.conf 2. 3. Actual results: [root@localhost ~]# yum remove openoffice* Options Error: Error parsing 'ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/fedora/updates/7/i386/': URL must be http, ftp, file or https not "" [root@localhost ~]# Expected results: yum works Additional info: offending file yum.repos.d/fedora.repo attached
Created attachment 233691 [details] offending file
baseurls have to start out with a protocol identifier your baseurl is: baseurl=ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ there's no protocol section. Yours should read: baseurl=ftp://ftp.wicks.co.nz/pub/linux/dist/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ see the ftp:// section - that's required. So yum's error message was accurate.
Mr Vidal I doth my hat and take a bow. Arrhhhh!!!! I can't type! (You didn't need to tell me that.) Thank you. M. :-)