Fedora Core 6 (FC6) yum issues
by z3n on Apr.09, 2009, under Linux Happyness
Problem:
yum stopped working with funny messages:
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
editing /etc/yum.repos.d/ files by removing the # near the baseurl, gives this other happy error message:
Setting up repositories
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:23:29 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 249
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: core
Solution:
I have this old FC6 server but apparently there’s no info about how to fix the repositories, at least not new info, mostly of the information i’ve found is outdated, and apparently fedora has changed the address of the repos since 2008/08/28 (weirdly it still working since last week)
so i found at:
ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/
a nice readme telling where the files are,
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/
all you need to do now, is replace into the .repo files at your’s /etc/yum.repos.d/ the new path and done!
Since this is a boring process, and i would need the .repo files myself i uploaded to the server, so:
July 16th, 2009 on 13:21
I have an old FC6 box I wanted to put bind/named on and couldn’t yum update it without access to the archived repositories. Many thanks.
August 20th, 2009 on 10:17
Thanks for the repofile.
August 26th, 2009 on 9:36
thanx man, you save my life
August 29th, 2009 on 1:20
You rock, man. You just saved me rebuilding a couple production bind servers.
Matt
September 12th, 2009 on 20:50
Thanks dude, you saved me. I appriciate the downloadable files, I was getting tired of editing them.
December 12th, 2009 on 19:36
Hi there.
Very helpfull entry, thus archives.fedoraproject.org (209.132.176.69) seems to be down/overloaded at the moment (2009-12-12 23:30 CET).
And everythig cleared up (moving to new datacenter) https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1845
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Timing:
Starting on December 12th we will start powering hosts down. We’re expecting to bring services back online starting on the 13th but may not be completely done until December 15th.
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Sincerely Slyher.