On Sun, 28 May 2006 12:04:09 +1000, David Timms wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:23:00 -0400, I Beartooth wrote: >> [...] >>> I'm getting persistent errors from yum update on a machine running >>> FC5.ppc, saying it can't find a valid baseurl for repo: core. > Can you post the actual error trace ? You mean this? : [root@localhost btth]# yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories core [1/3] http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/ppc/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')> Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Error: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from core: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. [root@localhost btth]# >> I should perhaps have added that this is what I have as a core repo : >> >> [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo >> [core] >> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch >> #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ >> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever > Can you point your web browser at the specified mirrorlist ? The baseurl gets me a 404 from Dillo; so does the URL after it -- but ... > Mod the $releasever to 5! > Do you get the mirrorlist OK ? Then I did, yes. > > Attempt to browse to one of the listed mirrors, replacing basearch and > releasever. Can you get there What do I put for basearch? Just ppc didn't work. Changing only $releasever to 5 doesn't solve it. I get a list of http and ftp sites with both dillo and opera; they aren't clickable. Do I need to copy the whole list into repos.d? Or will yum get it now? > Does your web browser use proxies to get to external web sites ? Yes, privoxy; and I did find a typo, 127.0.0..1 in the Galeon preferences; better check the others...
