On 12/2/06, Norm <maillist@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I had to reinstall Core 6. Everything has gone well until I tried to up date At the command line if I try yum update I get the following error ftp://ftp.safe.ca/pub/clement-2.1/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory. Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: clement From the gui if I use the "software updater" I receive this error in an "unable to retrieve information box "Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: clement" I have yum updater enabled but it does not return any indication of updates after I reboot the system. When I go to the ftp site I notice that there seems to be a missing subdirectory in the address between clement-2.1 and repodata. the ftp site indicates there should be a "fc6" subdirectory. The bottom is there must be another way to do updates, what is it? Norm
I recommend that you use a specific repository instead of using the mirrorlist. Go to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mirrors, find a fast server close to where you live, get the URL for the update directory, edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo, remove the "#" in front of "baseurl", insert the URL of your new repo after the "=" sign, and move the existing URL to the next line. For example: # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo [updates] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates baseurl=ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ #mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-fc$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora You can also do the same for fedora-core.repo. Instead of using YUM based applications try Smart Package Manager (smart, smart-gui, smart-update and ksmarttray). If yum is still giving you problems download the rpms from Extras using your browser and install with rpm.
