Hi,
I was using yum on fc2 it went fine even after editing yum.conf
(so that i could choose a mirror site). Today i ran yum for the first
time after upgrading to fc3, it showed me the following error msg.
------start err msg--------
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - #
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - #
Setting up Repo: fedora-extras-stable
Error accessing file for config file:////etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-devel.repo
Error accessing file for config
file:////etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
Error accessing file for config file:////etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
Error accessing file for config file:////etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora-extras-stable
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from fedora-extras-stable: [Errno 256] No
more mirrors to try.
------end err msg------
yum has changed in FC3. The idea is that each repo has its own file in /etc/yum.repos.d and that /etc/yum.conf just has a few options in it that apply to all repos, with no actual repos included there.
You should find a /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew file in the new format.
Try this:
# mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.old # mv /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew /etc/yum.conf
my yum.conf is as follows:
-------start yum.conf-------
[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum reposdir=/etc/yum.repos.d/ debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release assumeyes=1 exactarch=1 diskspacecheck=1 retries=1
[base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base baseurl=http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/redhat/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/os/ gpgcheck=1
[updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ #changed this today & commented 2 lines below # http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/redhat/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ # http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1
The base and updates-released repos should now be defined in the fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo files in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory.
[fedora-extras-stable] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - extra stable baseurl=http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable gpgcheck=1
Fedora Extras does not yet have an FC3 repo. See for yourself by visiting one of the repos you have configured above:
http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/3/i386/RPMS.stable
Paul.
