On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 14:56 +0200, Mustafa Orkun wrote: > ... > well,thanks.by emptying yum.conf file and adding dries.repo under > /etc/yum.repos.d worked. > but i want to use Didier's repo of enlightenment 17. > neither adding to yum.conf nor creating a repo file for it worked. i get: > > > [root@localhost ~]# yum check-update > > Setting up Repo: dries > > repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > > Setting up Repo: Didier > > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: Didier > > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from Didier: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. > > can you or can anybody help with this one? [prs@tabb1 ~]$ lftp http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386 cd ok, cwd=~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386 lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386> dir drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:29 .. drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:30 RPMS.e17 drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:30 RPMS.os drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:30 RPMS.updates drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:30 base drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:30 headers lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora/2/en/i386> cd ../../.. cd ok, cwd=~didierbe/fedora lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora> dir drwxr-xr-x - 2005-01-01 15:38 .. drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:29 1 drwxr-xr-x - 2004-12-05 15:29 2 lftp sps.nus.edu.sg:~didierbe/fedora> exit >From earlier traffic in this thread looks like you're using FC3. That repo only seems to have 1 and 2 [no 3 directory or new-yum-style repodata metadata directory] so no, can't help there. You could try manually downloading/installing RPMS and possibly creating a local repo so yum can see them. Would suggest rebuilding from SRPMS, but there don't seem to be any. Phil
