Re: yum prob on lappy

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:44, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:21, Craig White wrote:
> > >On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > >> Greetings;
> > >>
> > >> Over the weekend I tried to drag out my lappy and update it, getting
> > >> ready to upgrade to FC6, its currently FC5, but about 2 weeks out of
> > >> date.
> > >>
> > >> To make a long story shorter, what with editing the repo addresses,
> > >> putting fedoraproject.org in where downloads-redhat.com was due to
> > >> the repo or mirroring failures, I now have a __.000db file that when
> > >> I shut it down yesterday, was a zero length file and both yumex and
> > >> smart package manager were spitting out terminal tummy aches over
> > >> it.  An 'rpm --rebuilddb' also fails, as does an "rpm
> --initdb"
> > >>
> > >> Humm, now this morning, its back to complaining about an "invalid
> > >> baseurl for core".
> > >>
> > >> As that _000.db file seems to be missing now, and its not bitching
> > >> about it ATM, whats the next step here?, I've been out of the loop
> > >> since last wednesday, out on the road.  So if its been posted, whats
> > >> the subject line?
> > >
> > >----
> > >try removing the # (commenting out) the baseurl
> > >in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
> >
> > I've been trying to edit that and have it thoroughly fubared.
> >
> > If I can't restore what was there, and amanda doesn't try to track that
> > lappy, what is the correct contents for the "mirrorlist=" line in
> > fedora-core.repo?
> >
> > Where can I download a replacement for the contents of
> > /etc/yum.repos.d? I've had google searching for it, but all it can seem
> > to find is the livna setup instructions.  They seem to be fine.
>
> ----
> this is mine... (altered per instructions from wiki for FC-5)
>
> *************************************************************************
> ** # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
> [core]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$release
> ver/$basearch/os/
>  mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releas
> ever&arch=$basearch enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
>
> [core-debuginfo]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasev
> er/$basearch/debug/ enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
>
> [core-source]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - Source
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasev
> er/source/SRPMS/ enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
>
> *************************************************************************
> ******* # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo
> [extras]
> name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$relea
> sever/$basearch/
>  mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$rele
> asever&arch=$basearch enabled=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
> gpgcheck=1
>
> [extras-debuginfo]
> name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch - Debug
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releas
> ever/$basearch/debug/ enabled=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
> gpgcheck=1
>
> [extras-source]
> name=Fedora Extras $releasever - Source
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releas
> ever/SRPMS/ enabled=0
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
> gpgcheck=1
>
> *************************************************************************
> *******
>
> # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
> [updates]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$
> releasever/$basearch/
>  mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-rele
> ased-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>
> [updates-debuginfo]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$
> releasever/$basearch/debug/ enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>
> [updates-source]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - Updates Source
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$
> releasever/SRPMS/ enabled=0
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora 
Thanks, that did seem to do it.  Much appreciated.

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