yum repository not serving it's xml file

bluethundr · 04-02-2010, 11:36 AM

I have created a yum repo on my home machine using a tutorial I found on howtoforge.com

http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up...sitory-fedora8

This article talks about fedora 8 however I changed it just enough to be fedora 12.

The commands that I adapted for this release are these:

Code:

mkdir -p /var/www/html/yum/base/12/i386
mkdir -p /var/www/html/yum/updates/12/i386

Code:

createrepo /var/www/html/yum/base/12/i386

I then verified that the repo had been created

Code:

[root@lcent5-1 base]# ls -l /var/www/html/yum/base/12/i386/repodata/
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 181 Apr  2 11:21 filelists.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Apr  2 11:21 other.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Apr  2 11:21 primary.xml.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951 Apr  2 11:21 repomd.xml

I then went to my local fedora box and added the yum repo I created:

Code:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
installonly_limit=2

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

[base-local]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://lcent5-1.ath.cx/yum/base/$releasever/$basearch
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

[updates-local]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://lcent5-1.ath.cx/yum/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.yellowfiber.net/fedora/releases/12/Fedora/i386/os/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-12-primary

However, when I try to run yum, this is the message I get...

Code:

[root@harmony yum.repos.d]# yum search httpd
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
http://lcent5-1.ath.cx/yum/updates/12/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 : http://lcent5-1.ath.cx/yum/updates/12/i386/repodata/repomd.xml 
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates-local. Please verify its path and try again

Yum still works, obviously. But I would like to actually use this yum server if I can figure out how to do this...

Apache is running.. and I can access a website here:

My Yum Server

I would suspect that this file is the missing link here:

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951 Apr  2 11:21 repomd.xml

The above file can be found here...

Code:

/var/www/html/yum/base/12/i386/repodata/

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated...

rweaver · 04-02-2010, 11:47 AM

Check your apache logs, there's something wrong with that, if you can't download the file in your webbrowser ( http://lcent5-1.ath.cx/yum/updates/1...ata/repomd.xml ) then the repo won't work either.

In the case of that particular url its fine up to repodata then doesn't exist. The file exists under BASE but not under UPDATES.

bluethundr · 04-02-2010, 11:58 AM

hmmm.. this is a rather interesting entry in my log file..

Code:

[Fri Apr 02 12:54:04 2010] [error] [client 65.46.72.90] File does not exist: /var/www/html/yum/updates/12/i386/repodata, referer: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=3921901

bluethundr · 04-05-2010, 10:55 AM

Code:

createrepo /path/to/correctrepo

did it!!! :-)

rweaver · 04-06-2010, 11:31 AM

Yeap, using the correct path is an absolute essential