rawhide repo giving me an odd error

[Marc Dionne]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
> I'm  seeing exactly the same error. I reinstalled the fedora-release
> file to ensure I had the latest repo configs and still no difference.
> If I disabled the mirrorlist and enabled to baseurl option it works
> fine.

The fix for me was to manually download and update to
ca-certificates-2010-4.fc4 first.  I assume the required Equifax CA
certificate was added in this version.

Marc