[389-users] EL5 Install instructions broken?

[Rich Megginson]

On 02/29/2012 07:55 AM, Michael R. Gettes wrote:
> Ah!  Okay, that helps!  Sorry for being dense.
>
> BUT, now I download the epel-389-ds-base.repo
That's only for EL6

On EL5, everything is in the regular EPEL repositories - once you enable 
them, you don't have to do anything else.
> into the yum.repos.d and I get:
>
> [root at localhost SRPMS]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)
> [root at localhost SRPMS]# yum install 389-ds
> Loaded plugins: katello, product-id, rhnplugin, security, 
> subscription-manager
> Updating certificate-based repositories.
> Unable to read consumer identity
> epel-389-ds-base/primary                                               
> | 4.7 kB     00:00
> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rmeggins/389-ds-base/epel-6/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno -3] Error performing checksum
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from epel-389-ds-base: [Errno 
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
>
> And yes, I have tried the various cache invalidation techniques to no 
> avail.  Searching for solutions yields little useful info.
>
> /mrg
>
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:17, Rich Megginson wrote:
>
>> On 02/28/2012 07:42 PM, Michael Gettes wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am following the instructions on http://port389.org/wiki/Download 
>>> for EL5 (towards the bottom) and it would appear the URLs are bad. 
>>>  There appears to be no port389.org/yum/blah 
>>> <http://port389.org/yum/blah>.  I need to use EL5 - going to EL6 not 
>>> yet an option.  Has anyone gotten this to work?  Pointers appreciated.
>>>
>>> # yum install 389-ds
>>> Loaded plugins: katello, product-id, rhnplugin, security, 
>>> subscription-manager
>>> Updating certificate-based repositories.
>>> Unable to read consumer identity
>>> http://port389.org/yum/dirsrv/fedora/6/x86_64/RPMS/repodata/repomd.xml: 
>>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>>> Trying other mirror.
>>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for 
>>> repository: dirsrv. Please verify its path and try again
>> Those instructions are down at the bottom of the page and in a 
>> section titled
>> Old EL5 Package instructions
>> "As of December 18, 2009 there are current 389 packages in EPEL. 
>> Before 389 was available via EPEL, we provided a Fedora Core 6 yum 
>> repo for hosting the EL5 packages. The instructions below are for 
>> that repo."
>>
>> That's apparently too confusing, so I'll just remove that section 
>> entirely.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> /mrg
>>>
>>>
>>>
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