[WBEL-users] Trying to install yum on wbel 4

[Benjamin Smith]

	Found /etc/yum.repos.d/wbelmirrors.yum, and copied it 
to /etc/yum.repos.d/default.repo 

	Now, yum starts, but I get lots of errors, shown below. 

	1) $releasever isn't getting parsed. Instead, notice the "Null" that's put 
in, there. Just to be sure, I tried doing a search/replace for "$releasever" 
and replaced with "4", see #2 below. 

	2) It's looking for a "repmomd.xml". I looked thru my own yum repositories, 
and there's no such file. Also, I've verified that there is no such file at 
several of the listed repositories. (even when I replace the "Null" with a 
"4" in my browser) 

	I've already mirrored the WBEL release tree via rsync, and set up a yum 
archive for the 2-dozen-ish servers I intend to have running WBEL 4 as soon 
as I can get some trial testing done, but I can't install anything on my new 
system with yum! Does the yum repo need to be set up with yum-arch version 
2.2? (my yum repo is currently running WBEL 3.0) 

	Am I missing something? 

	-Ben 

############### ERRORS ##################### 

[root at localhost yum.repos.d]# yum list
Setting up Repos
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/whiteboxlinux/Null/en/debuginfo/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Can't change directory to Null: No 
such file or directory
Trying other mirror.
ftp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/whiteboxlinux.org/Null/en/debuginfo/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/Null/en/debuginfo/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/whitebox/Null/en/debuginfo/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Null: No such file or directory
Trying other mirror.
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/whiteboxlinux/Null/en/debuginfo/repodata/repomd.xml: 
[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.opensourcem


On Thursday 19 May 2005 18:17, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> John Morris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 17:49, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Did you tweak something up in yum to use .yum files ? normally yum
> >> 2.2.x
> >> will only parse .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/
> >
> > No, the full path is /etc/yum.repos.d/wbelmirrors.yum.
> 
> I believe the point is that yum won't read it unless it is
> /etc/yum.repos.d/wbelmirrors.repo.  Yum does a glob of the
> /etc/yum.repos.d file for just the *.repo files.
> 
> I haven't installed WBEL4 yet to try, but from what I know of yum it
> shouldn't work in the current state.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 
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