[Yum-devel] mirrorlist not working on our own repository

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Thomas Goirand wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This is a user question, not really for developers of yum, but I hope
> you will forget me for that one. I've searched on the net, and didn't
> get the answer I was looking for.
>
> For our panel, we have the CentOS instructions here:
>
> http://dtcsupport.gplhost.com/DTC-Xen/CentOS
>
> It includes how to add our repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/. The issue is
> that our mirrorlist thing doesn't work at all, with CentOS complaining
> like this:
>
> gplhost-archspecific/metalink
>          |  407 B     00:00
> Could not parse metalink
> http://ftparchive.gplhost.com/yum/centos/5/RPMS/i386/metalink error was
> File /var/cache/yum/gplhost-archspecific/metalink.xml.tmp is not XML
> Error: File /var/cache/yum/gplhost-archspecific/metalink.xml does not exist
>
> The information on the web about this is quite scarce when I google for
> it... What am I doing wrongly? I really want to use the mirrorlist
> thing, and not the baseurl if possible.
>
> Thanks if you help me here,

Can you post the complete .repo file you are using when you see this?.

thanks,
-sv