On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 11:42 -0700, George Arseneault wrote: > > --- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The default configuration uses mirrorlists rather > > than baseurls, which > > is why the baseurls are commented out. > > > > Paul. > > > > But, unfortunatly, when there is no baseurl, yum > (add/remove software, yumex, etc.) error and boot you > out of the program. It shouldn't do if there's a mirrorlist entry, at least one that works. I recall there being a lot of issues with the mirrorlists when FC5 first came out but I never saw those myself as I always used local mirrors. > I had to use kyum to figure that > out. See bugzilla bug #190405. (assuming you want a chuckle) I wouldn't trust kyum's repo parser if I was you. It doesn't parse them according to the documented file format (i.e. the manpage). For another chuckle, see bug #190886. Paul.
