On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:

> Two questions on repositories:
>
> 1.  How does one in fact install a repository on SL 6?  On RHEL 5=20
> (CentOS 5) there were RPMs that installed specific repositories, or=20
> detailed instructions included access to GPG security authentication=20
> keys.  I have not even been able to find how to install the additional=20
> repositories that came with SL 6 that I did not select during the actual=20
> installation of the system from the bootable install DVD.  Must I=20
> "upgrade" from the bootable DVD?  Are the RPMs for the SL repos on the DV=
> D?

There are rpms which "provide" other repos.

   epel-release
   adobe-release-i386
   elrepo-release
   rpmforge-release

There is documentation on this at

/usr/share/doc/sl-release-notes-6.0/index.html

-Connie Sieh

> 2.  The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton evidently also has a=20
> RHEL clone, currently RHEL 6.1.  URL: http://puias.math.ias.edu/
> The distro states:  Custom Red Hat=AE Distribution and Mirror. A project=20
> of members of the computing staff of  Princeton University and the=20
> Institute for Advanced Study.
>
> Introduction
>
> This project was started long before  CentOS or other projects were=20
> available. Even if you do not install the core distribution, the Addons,=20
> Computational and Unsupported repositories may be of use to you.
>
> End quote.
>
> As with SL, PUIAS evidently has professional institutional support,=20
> unlike say CentOS or the DAG repository.  I am not complaining about the=20
> quality of either CentOS or DAG, but an institutional professional=20
> staffing commitment often leads to a professional result, particularly=20
> when done by a professional entity (e.g., Fermilab/CERN or the Institute=20
> for Advanced Study).
>
> I found PUIAS because I was looking for a package that I had built from=20
> source on CentOS from the actual tar.gz source (not a RPM) from the=20
> source download site and I currently have neither my personal time nor=20
> staff to go down that path right now.  If I can find a prebuilt RPM,=20
> this would be much easier.  The PUIAS RPM for what I need generates a=20
> large number of dependencies for other utilities not included in the=20
> base SL repository but present on PUIAS, and it is likely that each of=20
> these RPMs calls for yet more dependencies.
>
> How does one add, say, PUIAS as a repository search path with precedence=20
> being given to SL over PUIAS except as needed?  A simple answer such as=20
> "import a key" or "install a XML repodata file" are not sufficient=20
> unlike using RPM to install a rpm file -- where (what directory/file)=20
> and how (what commands) specifically are needed to accomplish this task?=20
>  Note that PUIAS packages end with el6.x86_64.rpm as a RHEL 6 X86-64=20
> package should.
>
> Yasha Karant
>
> On 06/20/2011 08:55 PM, Kevin Thomas wrote:
>> I installed SL6 (i386) tonight in a virtual machine for testing and I
>> decided to run a yum update and was surprised that it failed because it
>> was having trouble contacting the repos. Below is a snippet of what I'm
>> talking about. What repos are valid and why am I seeing this?
>>
>> Total download size: 132 M
>> Is this ok [y/N]: y
>> Downloading Packages:
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securi=
> ty/avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securit=
> y/avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securi=
> ty/avahi-autoipd-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/avahi-autoipd-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/avahi-autoipd-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> (2/52): avahi-autoipd-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm | 33 kB 00:00
>> (3/52): avahi-glib-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm | 19 kB 00:00
>> (4/52): avahi-libs-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm | 53 kB 00:00
>> (5/52): avahi-ui-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm | 30 kB 00:00
>> (6/52): dbus-1.2.24-4.el6_0.i686.rpm | 210 kB 00:00
>> (7/52): dbus-libs-1.2.24-4.el6_0.i686.rpm | 127 kB 00:00
>> (8/52): dbus-x11-1.2.24-4.el6_0.i686.rpm | 38 kB 00:00
>> (9/52): dhclient-4.1.1-12.P1.el6_0.4.i686.rpm | 334 kB 00:00
>> (10/52): firefox-3.6.17-1.el6_0.i686.rpm | 14 MB 00:08
>> (11/52): gdm-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm | 1.0 MB 00:01
>> (12/52): gdm-libs-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm | 93 kB 00:00
>> (13/52): gdm-plugin-fingerprint-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.r | 95 kB 00:00
>> (14/52): gdm-user-switch-applet-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.r | 104 kB 00:00
>> (15/52): glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.i686.rpm | 4.3 MB 00:03
>> (16/52): glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.i686.rpm | 14 MB 00:08
>> (17/52): kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.i686.rpm | 21 MB 00:16
>> (18/52): kernel-firmware-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.noarch.rpm | 2.5 MB 00:02
>> (19/52): krb5-libs-1.8.2-3.el6_0.7.i686.rpm | 689 kB 00:01
>> (20/52): libpurple-2.7.9-3.el6.i686.rpm | 6.1 MB 00:03
>> (21/52): libtiff-3.9.4-1.el6_0.3.i686.rpm | 337 kB 00:00
>> (22/52): livecd-tools-0.3.6-4.el6.i686.rpm | 59 kB 00:00
>> (23/52): logrotate-3.7.8-12.el6_0.1.i686.rpm | 52 kB 00:00
>> (24/52): nss-3.12.8-3.el6_0.0.sl6.i686.rpm | 750 kB 00:01
>> (25/52): nss-sysinit-3.12.8-3.el6_0.0.sl6.i686.rpm | 25 kB 00:00
>> (26/52): openldap-2.4.19-15.el6_0.2.i686.rpm | 232 kB 00:00
>> (27/52): openssl-1.0.0-10.el6.i686.rpm | 1.4 MB 00:01
>> (28/52): perl-5.10.1-119.el6.i686.rpm | 9.7 MB 00:07
>> (29/52): perl-Module-Pluggable-3.90-119.el6.i686.rpm | 36 kB 00:00
>> (30/52): perl-Pod-Escapes-1.04-119.el6.i686.rpm | 28 kB 00:00
>> (31/52): perl-Pod-Simple-3.13-119.el6.i686.rpm | 208 kB 00:00
>> (32/52): perl-libs-5.10.1-119.el6.i686.rpm | 589 kB 00:00
>> (33/52): perl-version-0.77-119.el6.i686.rpm | 47 kB 00:00
>> (34/52): pidgin-2.7.9-3.el6.i686.rpm | 1.4 MB 00:01
>> (35/52): policycoreutils-2.0.83-19.8.el6_0.i686.rpm | 669 kB 00:00
>> (36/52): polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1.i686.rpm | 156 kB 00:00
>> (37/52): polkit-desktop-policy-0.96-2.el6_0.1.noarch.rpm | 5.7 kB 00:00
>> (38/52): postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.i686.rpm | 2.0 MB 00:01
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securit=
> y/python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] FTP Error 425 :
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securit=
> y/python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm
>>
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securi=
> ty/python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> (40/52): python-imgcreate-0.3.6-4.el6.i686.rpm | 82 kB 00:00
>> (41/52): python-libs-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm | 602 kB 00:00
>> (42/52): rdesktop-1.6.0-8.el6_0.1.i686.rpm | 144 kB 00:00
>> (43/52): rsync-3.0.6-5.el6_0.1.i686.rpm | 328 kB 00:00
>> (44/52): selinux-policy-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarch.rpm | 719 kB 00:00
>> (45/52): selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-54.el6_0.5.noarc | 2.3 MB 00:02
>> (46/52): sudo-1.7.4p5-5.el6.i686.rpm | 412 kB 00:00
>> (47/52): thunderbird-3.1.10-1.el6_0.i686.rpm | 29 MB 00:22
>> (48/52): tigervnc-1.0.90-0.15.20110314svn4359.el6_1.1.i6 | 267 kB 00:00
>> (49/52): tigervnc-server-1.0.90-0.15.20110314svn4359.el6 | 1.1 MB 00:01
>> (50/52): tzdata-2011g-1.el6.noarch.rpm | 444 kB 00:00
>> (51/52): xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-15.el6_0.2.i686.rpm | 126 kB 00:00
>> (52/52): xulrunner-1.9.2.17-4.el6_0.i686.rpm | 9.2 MB 00:06
>>
>>
>> Error Downloading Packages:
>> avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686: failure: avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686.rpm from
>> sl-security: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>> python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686: failure: python-2.6.6-20.el6.i686.rpm from
>> sl-security: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
>>
>> [root@test ~]# yum install fastest-mirror
>> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/repodata/re=
> pomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/repodata/r=
> epomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/repodata/r=
> epomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/os/repodata/rep=
> omd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/securi=
> ty/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/updates/secur=
> ity/repodata/repomd.xml:
>> [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 56 - ""
>> Trying other mirror.
>>
>>
>> Kevin
>