yum failure

[Mustafa Orkun]

Phil Schaffner yazmış:
> On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:56 +0200, Mustafa Orkun wrote:
> 
> ....
> 
>>well,thanks.by emptying yum.conf file and adding dries.repo under 
>>/etc/yum.repos.d worked.
>>but i want to use Didier's repo of enlightenment 17.
>>neither adding to yum.conf nor creating a repo file for it worked. i get:
>>
>>
>>>[root at localhost ~]# yum check-update
>>>Setting up Repo:  dries
>>>repomd.xml                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
>>>Setting up Repo:  Didier
>>>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: Didier
>>>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Didier: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>
>>can you or can anybody help with this one?
> 
> 
> [prs at tabb1 ~]$ lftp http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386
> cd ok, cwd=~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386
> lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386> dir
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:29  ..
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:30  RPMS.e17
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:30  RPMS.os
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:30  RPMS.updates
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:30  base
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:30  headers
> lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386> cd ../../..
> cd ok, cwd=~didierbe/fedora
> lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora> dir
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2005-01-01 15:38  ..
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:29  1
> drwxr-xr-x            -  2004-12-05 15:29  2
> lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora> exit
> 
>>From earlier traffic in this thread looks like you're using FC3.  That
> repo only seems to have 1 and 2 [no 3 directory or new-yum-style
> repodata metadata directory] so no, can't help there.  You could try
> manually downloading/installing RPMS and possibly creating a local repo
> so yum can see them.  Would suggest rebuilding from SRPMS, but there
> don't seem to be any.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
thanks all,you've enlightened me :)