[Yum] Fedora 8 phantom yum repositories?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:16 -0500, Damon Hart wrote:
> Upon installing Fedora 8 on a few machines, I set up HTTP access
> to local yum repositories, replacing an NFS (read-only) setup
> because the newer yum versions wanted to write to
> /var/lib/yum. Everything appears to be working with respect to
> package install, etc. but I do get a bunch of "Repository X is
> listed more than once in the configuration" messages whenever yum
> is run.
> 
> I've tried to track this down, presuming first there were
> duplicate repo entries in the various files, but it turns out
> that each repo is listed exactly once. Furthermore, even when I
> delete all repo files and clean the cache, yum still somehow
> retains knowledge of the deleted info:
> 
> localhost# yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> localhost# rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/*
> localhost# yum update
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 4.9 MB    00:01
> file:///var/lib/yum/livna/fedora/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5]
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/lib/yum/livna/fedora/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml'
> Trying other mirror.
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 177 kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 1.1 MB    00:00
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
> 
> Where's yum getting the info on fedora, livna and updates repos?
> The request for a file:// URL in the case of livna even predates
> the migration to HTTP access.  There are no files in
> /etc/yum.repos.d:
> 
> localhost# ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d
> total 0
> 
> and there are no repos listed in the /etc/yum.conf:
> 
> localhost# cat /etc/yum.conf
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> keepcache=0
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> exactarch=1
> obsoletes=1
> gpgcheck=1
> plugins=1
> metadata_expire=1800
> installonly_limit=2
> 
> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
> # in /etc/yum.repos.d
> 
> This is version 3.2.8, from rpm -qi:
> Name        : yum                          Relocations: (not  relocatable)
> Version     : 3.2.8                             Vendor: Fedora Project
> Release     : 2.fc8                         Build Date: Wed 05 Dec 2007 
> 05:26:32 PM EST
> 
> Perhaps something I've overlooked? Any suggestions appreciated.
> 

check out these dirs:

ls -la /etc/yum.repos.d 
ls -la /etc/yum/repos.d

-sv