[ALUG] YUM: missing baseurl

[Brett Parker]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 12:18:22PM +0000, Yvonne Everett wrote:
> I've just installed Fedora 6 and am having problems getting YUM and
> Software Updater to work properly.  For instance, the extract below
> shows the "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core" error
> which is exactly the same error I get with Software Updated:
> 
> [root at ukl20943l etc]# su -c 'yum grouplist'
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Group Process
> Setting up repositories
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> [url]http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-6&arch=i386[/url]
> error was
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not known')>
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

Well, visiting the url you give gives back a Service Temporarily
Unavailable (503) message...

So, err, they've broken the script to list mirrors. Oops.

So, you can edit the files in /etc/repos.d and set a baseurl in place of
the mirror thing and point it somewhere like:
	http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux

And then yum update and hope a lot...

(note: I don't run fedora, I'm going based on CentOS, which we run on a
couple of servers here to test one of our $products).

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker