On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 12:46 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:40:09 +0100, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? > > The OP commented out the baseurl line in > /et/cyum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo leaving only mirrorlist as the > repositoryid. Per 'man yum.conf': This is perfectly normal. The baseurl is in fact commented out by default. See: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm//etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo?extract=true > Either the mirrorlist list is defective or there is a bug in yum-2.2. Clearly the proxy configuration using environment variables, which used to work, is no longer doing so. I would however be interested to hear if the yum.conf way of specifying proxies now works in yum 2.2. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
