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Re: yum/wget do not work
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Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Garrett Holmstrom <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:52:17 -0600
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Andrew Stallard wrote:
> http://rpm.livna.org/repo/5.4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP
> Error 404: Not Found

redhat-release-5Server-5.4.0.3
centos-release-5-4.el5
sl-release-5.4-1

See the difference?  It turns out that this problem is due to SL's 
differing from upstream in a fairly big way:  SL changes the version of 
the sl-release RPM for every point release, whereas upstream changes 
only the release number of its release package.  Hence the value of 
$releasever will change on SL for every point release, which breaks repo 
configurations.

I mentioned this to the Livna maintainers and they added a bunch of 
symlinks so it quits breaking for SL 5.3 and up.  Try it again - it 
should work now.

--
Garrett Holmstrom
University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy
Systems Staff

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