repodata appears a little messed up: $ yum clean all $ rm -rf /var/tmp/yum-* # clear out cached yum data $ repoquery --verbose --repofrompath=1,/net/blob/storage/OS/SL/7rolling/x86_64/os --repoid=1 bash Added 1 repo from /net/blob/storage/OS/SL/7rolling/x86_64/os 1 | 3.6 kB 00:00 1/group_gz | 115 kB 00:00 file:///net/blob/storage/OS/SL/7rolling/x86_64/os/repodata/updateinfo.xml.bz2: [Errno 14] curl#37 - "Couldn't open file /net/blob/storage/OS/SL/7rolling/x86_64/os/repodata/updateinfo.xml.bz2" Trying other mirror. Can't download or revert repomd.xml for 1 It looks like repomd.xml refers to updateinfo.xml.bz2 which does not exist. The uncompressed updateinfo.xml does exist. Manually running bzip2 on updateinfo.bz2 seems to fix the problem. - Pat