OK guys - what happened to YUM

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, jdow wrote:

> Is it really this fragile that within 24 hours it goes from working to this:
>
> ===8<---
> # yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates-released
> ===8<---
>
> What do I need to fix? This is the /etc/yum.repos.d directory:
> ===8<--- (All dated Jun 3)
> # ls /etc/yum.repos.d
> fedora-devel.repo         fedora-extras.repo  fedora-updates.repo
> fedora-extras-devel.repo  fedora.repo         fedora-updates-testing.repo
> ===8<---
>
> yum.conf and other yum files are even older.
>
> The /var/cache/yum files seem to be consistent with an update yesterday.
>
> I have made no changes myself to these files or to yum.conf. So something 
> went
> bad. I'd rather like to get it working again.

It's working here now, but I saw this last night.  Turned out the server 
where the mirror lists are kept was down for maintenance.

Not a very informative way to fail, but I don't think it's your fault.

BTW, I'm seeing your message in a digest, but it's about 24 hours behind 
when you sent it.

>
> {^_^} 
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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