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Re: yum unable to expand the $releasever in repo url?
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:08:58 -0600
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Can I see your yum repo files (/etc/yum.repos.d/sl*.repo)?

Pat

On 02/21/2013 11:05 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a minimal SL6 image with yum groups base+core and
> openssh-server using
> http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/os/. Image is created
> fine but when I boot up and try to run yum update it fails with  errors
> (see below). I also tried enabling and disabling mirrors doing yum clean
> all every time before I run the update command.
>
> I also noticed there is a /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$releasever dir.
> Removing this $releasever dir does not help. It is recreated. For a
> working system $releasever in the yum cache is actually expanded to the
> respective versions but not in this case.
>
> Is there a package pycurl depends on that is not pulled by default
> making it unable to expand the $releasever correctly?
>
> ---------
> yum clean all ; yum update --skip-broken 1 > yum.out 2>&1
>
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
> Determining fastest mirrors
>   * sl: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>   * sl-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>   * sl6x: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
>   * sl6x-security: ftp2.scientificlinux.org
> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
> "The requested URL returned error: 404"
> Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
> "The requested URL returned error: 404"
> Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 -
> "The requested URL returned error: 404"
> Trying other mirror.
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/%
> 24releasever/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 9 -
> "Server denied you to change to the given directory"
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
> sl. Please verify its path and try again
>
>


-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer

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