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

[Novak Roman - roman.novak at iskratr.si]

Hello.

This is the same problem i described a week ago. What could be the solution?

Roman

Novak Roman - roman.novak at iskratr.si wrote:

> Second problem i have is yum.
> when i run yum update, it says "Config error: Insufficient repository 
> configuration. No repositories Found/Enabled. Aborting." Then i cp 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/wbelmirrors.yum /etc/yum.repos.d/wbel.repo and run 
> yum update again.
> Now i get only errors with those servers, probably because ftp path is 
> wrong.
>
> [root at localhost ~]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> ftp://mirror3.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/whiteboxlinux.org/* Null 
> */en/debuginfo/repodata/repomd.xml: 
> <ftp://mirror3.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/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: 
> <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.
>
> Can you send any working file.repo or advice, what to do?
>
> Thanks for help,
>
> --------------------------------------
> Roman 


Benjamin Smith wrote:

>	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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>
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