On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:35 +0100, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > Recently "yum check-update" and "yum update" has started producing the > error "Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: ...". Googling suggests > that other occurrences have been caused by network connectivity errors > or miss configured yum repository locations. I am convinced that in my > case it is yum 2.2's inability to successfully download files through a > HTTP proxy that is the problem. To work around the problem I > reinstalled yum 2.1 and upgrade using "yum --exclude=yum update". yum 2.2 provides a way to specify the proxy globally or separately for each repo if required (see "man yum.conf"). Did you try that? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
