yum

Dave Mitchell davem at iabyn.com
Wed Oct 25 18:15:28 UTC 2006


On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:35:49PM +0200, Andrea Bencini wrote:
> I installed FC5 and I did successfully  "yum update".
> 
> Now I would like to do "yum update" again, but I receive this messages:
> 
> "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core"
> "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core"
> Where is the mistake?

It's because the Redhat servers are currently hosed, and the URL that
normally supplies a mirror list,

    http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc5

is currently returning a static page saying "sorry, we're overloaded".

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