Those look like they should....

What do

rpm -q sl-release
yum provides redhat-release

report?

Pat

On 02/21/2013 11:17 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
> Hi Pat,
>
> Repo files are attached. I did an rpm install of
> yum-conf-sl6x-1-2.noarch.rpm separately after the VM creation hoping
> that it would fix the problem, but no luck.
>
> Just a minor correction to my previous email, its not pycurl but yum
> that is not able to expand the $releasever
>
>
> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:08 -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>> Can I see your yum repo files (/etc/yum.repos.d/sl*.repo)?
>>
>> Pat
>>
>> On 02/21/2013 11:05 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I created a minimal SL6 image with yum groups base+core and
>>> openssh-server using
>>> http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/os/. Image is created
>>> fine but when I boot up and try to run yum update it fails with  errors
>>> (see below). I also tried enabling and disabling mirrors doing yum clean
>>> all every time before I run the update command.
>>>
>>> I also noticed there is a /var/cache/yum/x86_64/$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
>>>
>>>
>>


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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer