No scientific linux packages populate yum.conf with any centos related 
information.

Pat

On 02/21/2013 11:34 AM, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
> Oh this is strange and seems like I found the problem with default yum.
>
> Looking at the redhat docs, yum obtains value of $releasever from the
> distroverpkg variable in yum.conf. In case of my BM it is pointing to
> centos-release. In case of a working slf6.3 this variable does not exit.
>
> So I commented this line and now everything works. I am guessing yum is
> falling back to redhat-release or system-release if this info is not in
> yum.conf
>
> Now the question is which package/version fixes this yum.conf?
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:27 -0600, Parag Mhashilkar wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 11:20 -0600, Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>> Those look like they should....
>>>
>>> What do
>>>
>>> rpm -q sl-release
>> sl-release-6.3-1.x86_64
>>
>>> yum provides redhat-release
>>>
>> This command fails with the same PYCURL ERROR 22
>>
>> But the file /etc/redhat-release exists and contains
>> Scientific Linux release 6.3 (Carbon)
>>
>> I suspect most dont see the error since they install many other
>> packages, one of which does the required magic. One we are creating is a
>> bare min for cloud work.
>>
>>> 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