dnf woes

[Philip Rhoades]

People,


On 2015-05-07 00:44, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Pierre-Yves Chibon 
> <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 12:31:46AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>>> People,
>>> 
>>> I have been watching the dnf arguments over the last year or so with 
>>> a
>>> little interest but now I am exposed to an actual problem - I have 
>>> been
>>> making VMs from the last few beta versions of 
>>> Fedora-Live-Xfce-x86_64-22 and
>>> find that Beta-3 still does not let me update packages after 
>>> installation -
>>> I still get the following error:
>>> 
>>> "Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'fedora' from
>>> 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-22&arch=x86_64':
>>> Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All 
>>> mirrors
>>> were tried"
>>> 
>>> whenever I do anything with dnf (eg "dnf [install xx | update]" etc) 
>>> - there
>>> doesn't to be too many reports about this so am I missing something?
>> 
>> This is likely not related to dnf but to changes on the Fedora 
>> infrastructure on
>> the mirrorlist servers.
>> I believe there just was a small hick-ups, could you try again now to 
>> see if you
>> can still reproduce it?
> 
> Also make sure the computer's time is correct as a time diff over 5
> mins can also cause similar issues.


Yes, it working now - I was messing around with it over a number of 
hours while doing other things . . I guess I will just keep an eye on it 
. .

Thanks,

Phil.
-- 
Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil at pricom.com.au