Hey,
you might have came across with this:
# yum update Config time: 0.007 Yum Version: 3.2.28 COMMAND: yum update Installroot: / Setting up Package Sacks Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
I can download any repomd.xml wo/ trouble using wget and filling up the variables in the URL by hand.
Unfortunately there is no strace installed yet so I can't just trace what is happening. I am going to install it from rpm and see what is going on. Any advice is welcome.
# uname -a Linux ip-5 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 15:36:08 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Regard, Istvan