[Yum] yum list available comes up empty

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Michael Schwager wrote:

> Hi,
> I cannot list the packages in my repo.  Can anyone help?
> 
> I have created my own repo on my machine, named chi67:
> 
> # rpm -q yum
> yum-3.2.19-18.el5
> # createrepo /var/www/html/fedora11-stuff
> 9/9 - compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-142.i586.rpm                                   
> Saving Primary metadata
> Saving file lists metadata
> Saving other metadata
> 
> ...seemed to be successful.
> 
> Now, on my other machine- the client- I created /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo:
> 
> [fedora11-stuff]
> name=Fedora $releasever Stuff - $basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=http://chi67/fedora11-stuff
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
> 
> But now I cannot list the packages that I have in the fedora11-stuff.  No error, but nothing displayed either:
> 
> # yum clean all
> Cleaning up Everything
> # yum repolist
> fedora11-stuff                                                               |  951 B     00:00    
> fedora11-stuff/primary                                                       | 5.8 kB     00:00    
> fedora11-stuff                                                                                  9/9
> repo id                                 repo name                                         status
> fedora11-stuff                          Fedora 11 Stuff - x86_64                          enabled: 9
> repolist: 9
> # yum list available
> # echo $?
> 0
>

is it possible all of the pkgs in your fedora11-stuff pkgs are installed 
locally?

If so then the pkgs are NOT available.

they are installed.

-sv