Tell me proper URL for yum checking

[SHIMADA, MAKOTO]

Hi all
I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4), but have a problem which 
the Red Hat company does not support.  Since RHEL is a closely related 
with Fedora, I would like to ask your favor.
I need to install yum on my RHEL4 workstation.
I installed yum2.0.7, which appears to be succeeding in.
Then I conducted “yum check-update” but got error messages as follows;
--------------------
# yum check-update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 4WS - x86_64 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:

http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/4WS/x86_64/headers/he...
   Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file 
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/4WS/x86_64/headers/he...
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >
--------------------
I understand that the URL may be wrong in the setting.  Even if so, I do 
not know what is proper URL.
Please tell me proper setting.

Followings are the current contents of
/etc/yum.conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[base]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base

baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch...

[updates]
name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates

baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

Best regards,
Mark

[Ed Greshko]

MAKOTO SHIMADA wrote:
> Hi all
> I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4), but have a problem which 
> the Red Hat company does not support.  Since RHEL is a closely related 
> with Fedora, I would like to ask your favor.
> I need to install yum on my RHEL4 workstation.
> I installed yum2.0.7, which appears to be succeeding in.
> Then I conducted “yum check-update” but got error messages as follows;
>
> # yum check-update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux 4WS - x86_64 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/4WS/x86_64/headers/he...
>    Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/4WS/x86_64/headers/he...
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >
>
> I understand that the URL may be wrong in the setting.  Even if so, I do 
> not know what is proper URL.
> Please tell me proper setting.
>
> Followings are the current contents of
> /etc/yum.conf
>
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=redhat-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
>
> [base]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
>
> baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch...
>
> [updates]
> name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - Updates
>
> baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/updates/$releasever/

Exactly what are you trying to update via yum?  You can't update the
base packages of RHELv4 via yum since RH does not support yum at that
release level.  You need to use their "up2date".  Additionally, RH
requires a subscription to update.  In RHELv5 yum is used instead of
"up2date".  But, again, you need a subscription to update.

If you need the stability of RHEL, but don't/can't want to pay for a
subscription there is always the well known clone CentOS.

Re[2]: Tell me proper URL for yum checking

[SHIMADA, MAKOTO]

Thanks Ed Greshko;
> Exactly what are you trying to update via yum?

No, I routinely use "up2date" to keep my RHEL4 machine up to date.
> You can't update the
> base packages of RHELv4 via yum since RH does not support yum at that
> release level.

I know that.
However, I need to install another software,which require yum.
So, I have to install yum before the installation of the software.

What I need is the URL to solve the IOError: <urlopen error >.

Thanks.
Mark

[Chris Kloiber]

Yes, and what he told you is that there is no legal URL for a Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 4 yum repository. A Red Hat Network subscription (which 
uses up2date) is required. Now if you happen to have an RHN 
subscription, up2date can be coerced into using a third party yum 
repository. See /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

If you don't have an RHN subscription, you can convert your RHEL4 to 
CentOS4 by replacing the redhat-release with centos-release (IIRC) then 
use the CentOS4 yum repositories.

[Ed Greshko]

SHIMADA, MAKOTO wrote:
> Thanks Ed Greshko;
> > Exactly what are you trying to update via yum?
>
> No, I routinely use "up2date" to keep my RHEL4 machine up to date.
> > You can't update the
> > base packages of RHELv4 via yum since RH does not support yum at that
> > release level.
>
> I know that.
> However, I need to install another software,which require yum.
> So, I have to install yum before the installation of the software.
>
> What I need is the URL to solve the IOError: <urlopen error >.

What you need is the repository information for the software you want to
install....

I have a RHELv4.8 system.  I use yum in conjunction with the EPEL
repositories.

So, my yum.conf contains...

[egreshko@misty etc]$ cat yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

And in /etc/yum.repos.d  I have the repository files...  One of them is
epel.repo and contains...

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/$basearch
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-4&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL

AND MORE.....

In actuality those files were created by installing the epel-release-4-9
rpm from the EPEL website.

So, what is the "other" software you need to install?

Re[2]: Tell me proper URL for yum checking

[SHIMADA, MAKOTO]

Thanks Chris Kloiber:
> Yes, and what he told you is that there is no legal URL for a Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux 4 yum repository.

I think I get the picture.
I found the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.
I will try according the information.
> If you don't have an RHN subscription,

I have an RHN subscription for RHEL4.

Best.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:17:48 -0400
Chris Kloiber  wrote:
> Yes, and what he told you is that there is no legal URL for a Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux 4 yum repository. A Red Hat Network subscription (which 
> uses up2date) is required. Now if you happen to have an RHN 
> subscription, up2date can be coerced into using a third party yum 
> repository. See /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>
> If you don't have an RHN subscription, you can convert your RHEL4 to 
> CentOS4 by replacing the redhat-release with centos-release (IIRC) then 
> use the CentOS4 yum repositories.
>
> -- 
> Chris Kloiber

Re[2]: Tell me proper URL for yum checking

[SHIMADA, MAKOTO]

Thanks Ed Greshko;
> What you need is the repository information for the software you want to
> install....

Yes it is.

I'm beginning to understand.
> So, my yum.conf contains...

I will try using this information.
> So, what is the "other" software you need to install?

I need to install GBrowse 2.0 and am trying to do according to the Section
about installation using RPM System (yum) of the following site 
http://gmod.org/wiki/GBrowse_2.0_Prerequisites

Best.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:31:19 +0800
Ed Greshko  wrote:

[Ed Greshko]

SHIMADA, MAKOTO wrote:
> I need to install GBrowse 2.0 and am trying to do according to the Section
> about installation using RPM System (yum) of the following site 
> http://gmod.org/wiki/GBrowse_2.0_Prerequisit

What I would do is....

1.  Satisfy whatever prerequisites you can using "up2date", since you
said you do have a rhn subscription.  Packages like httpd and subversion
are already available in RHELv4.

2.  If not all needed packages are available on RHN, I would then head
to
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/repoview/epel-release.html
download and install epel-release-4-9.noarch.rpm

3.  Use yum to install the remaining prerequisites.