rawhide repo giving me an odd error

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 00:03 +0100, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been away from my pc for the last couple of days and have come back
> to find a problem.
> 
> When I try to do an update from yum, I'm getting the following error
> 
> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: rawhide. Please verify
> its path and try again

 To get more info use: URLGRABBER_DEBUG=1 yum check-update

> Looking at the fedora-rawhide.repo file, nothing looks untoward. If I
> change from using the mirrors to the baseurl, the error goes, but then
> it also reports that there are no updates available.
> 
> Have I missed another change? The system was happily doing auto updates
> until (I think) Thursday.

 You can use:

yum repolist -v rawhide

...to see when the last time you got data was, if it's over a couple of
days for rawhide something bad is probably happening.