Description of problem: A "yum upgrade" from F10 to F11 does not work. This is caused by the fact that the mirrorlist for F11 is provided by an XML-file. For F10 this used to be a plain-text file. In my opinion the most recent Yum in F10 does not know what to do with an XML mirrorlist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-utils-1.1.19-1.fc10.noarch yum-3.2.21-2.fc10.noarch yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-10.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 10 on a (x86_64) system 2. yum -y update 3. wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm 4. wget http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm 5. rpm -Uvh fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm 6. yum clean all 7. yum upgrade Actual results: YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. </metalink>/ removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again Expected results: Normal yum upgrade output Additional info:
the same here under fc10.x86 and fc10.ppc it is working if i change the lines in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo from mirrorlist=https:// ... /metalink?repo= ... to mirrorlist=https:// ... /mirrorlist?repo= ... you should provide an update for the fedora-release package.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498720 ***