[Yum] Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file

[Steven McKinney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yum-bounces at lists.baseurl.org on behalf of Jim Perrin
> Sent: Tue 4/14/2009 5:17 PM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: Re: [Yum] Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Steven McKinney <smckinney at bccrc.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> 
> > Is this just a matter of updating a URL in a .repo file
> > or some other issue(s)?
> 
> Other issues.
>
> > Any info appreciated.
> >
> > Here's an example update attempt:
> >
> > [smckinney at mb1 yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum update
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404:
> 
> This url basically spells out your issue. Fedora Core 6 has been EOL
> for quite some time, and it appears to no longer be carried on the
> fedora mirrors. You can either update to the latest version of fedora
> (10 or 11, I'm not sure), or if you want to stick with software of
> similar version with a longer lifespan, you might want to check out
> CentOS 5.


Thank you Jim,

Updating OS will need to happen.

In the interim I finally found these URLs
and yum lives!  So we have a bit of breathing room.

http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/debug/
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/6/source/SRPMS/

http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/debug/
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/SRPMS/

http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/

[smckinney at mb1 yum.repos.d]$ sudo yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 824 kB    00:02     
core      : ################################################## 2242/2242
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 475 kB    00:01     
updates   : ################################################## 1285/1285
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.7 MB    00:04     
extras    : ################################################## 5211/5211
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[smckinney at mb1 yum.repos.d]$ 


Best

Steve McKinney



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