[Yum] FC4 - yum 2.3.x, 2.4.0

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:13 -0600, David Wilkins wrote:
> Ok I have done everything correctly as far as I can tell.  Nearly
> everything I have read talks about how yum works "out of the box" with
> FC4, but for the life of me I can't get it to work for anything.  
> 
> I exported my proxy setting since I initially was getting nowhere.
> Then I kept getting messages about "Cannot find a valid baseurl for
> repo: updates-released
> 
> ok, well all the provided repo files have baseurl commented out, so I
> uncommented the line in fedora-updates.repo and got this output:
> Setting up repositories
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:09:39 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.43 (Unix)
> Content-Length: 339
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates-released
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256] No
> more mirrors to try.
> Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates-released: [Errno 256]
> No more mirrors to try.
> 
> I find that as extremely strange since I can put the entire URL:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml in my browser and the xml file is shown fine.
> 
> It isn't the proxy that I am going through because I know of at least
> one other person who works where I do that has no problems.

did you define your proxy in your yum.conf file?

the other user may have done that already.
-sv