Yum.repos.d -- and livna? -- on FC5.ppc??

[Beartooth]

I got the livna.org URLs from a couple of livna threads here, but can't
get in at the moment.

I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running
FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core. My
/etc/yum.repos.d contains the same files as on my x86 FC5 machines, except
that the livna ones are not there. Would installing them help, next time I
can get to livna? Or is this something else?

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:23:00 -0400,  IBeartooth wrote:
[...]
> I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running
> FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core. My
> /etc/yum.repos.d contains the same files as on my x86 FC5 machines, except
> that the livna ones are not there. Would installing them help, next time I
> can get to livna? Or is this something else?>

I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo :

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
[core]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearc...
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
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 - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearc...
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 $releasever - Source
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/source/S...
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
[root@localhost ~]#

[David Timms]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:23:00 -0400,  IBeartooth wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running
> > FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core.

Can you post the actual error trace ?
> > My
> > /etc/yum.repos.d contains the same files as on my x86 FC5 machines, except
> > that the livna ones are not there. Would installing them help, next time I
> > can get to livna? Or is this something else?>
>
> I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo :
>
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
> [core]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearc...
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever

Can you point your web browser at the specified mirrorlist ?
Mod the $releasever to 5!
Do you get the mirrorlist OK ?

Attempt to browse to one of the listed mirrors, replacing basearch and 
releasever. Can you get there ?

Does your web browser use proxies to get to external web sites ?

My understanding is that yum will try every mirror in the mirrorlist 
until it finds a mirror that works.

You could also direct yum to use a specific near mirror, using the 
baseurl. Or you could:
# yum disablerepo=core update

While this may give problems if a package update requires installation 
of a new package from the core (CD), it might get you around the {core} 
problem for now ?

DaveT

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:04:09 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:23:00 -0400,  IBeartooth wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running
> > > FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core.
>
> Can you post the actual error trace ?

You mean this? :

[root@localhost btth]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core                                                                 [1/3]
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/os/repodata/re...: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
[root@localhost btth]#
> > I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo :
> >
> > [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo
> > [core]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
> > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearc...
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
>
> Can you point your web browser at the specified mirrorlist ?

The baseurl gets me a 404 from Dillo; so does the URL after it -- but ...
> Mod the $releasever to 5!
> Do you get the mirrorlist OK ?

Then I did, yes.
> Attempt to browse to one of the listed mirrors, replacing basearch and 
> releasever. Can you get there

What do I put for basearch? Just ppc didn't work. Changing only
$releasever to 5 doesn't solve it.

I get a list of http and ftp sites with both dillo and opera; they aren't
clickable.
> Does your web browser use proxies to get to external web sites ?

Yes, privoxy; and I did find a typo, 127.0.0..1 in the Galeon preferences;
better check the others...