[SOLVED] YUM Error

vikas027 · 05-03-2012, 06:33 AM

Hi All,

I am sitting on a CentOS 6.2 machine and trying to use -c option of yum.

I am facing the below error.

Code:

root@kick:~# yum install quartz -c http://192.168.1.100/yum/EXTRA/SPACEWALK64Bit 
CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Parsing file failed: File contains no section headers.
file: http://192.168.1.100/yum/EXTRA/SPACEWALK64Bit, line: 1
'<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">\n'
root@kick:~#

This is my repo file, I am not sure what I am missing here.

Code:

root@kick:~# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/spacewalk.repo
[SPACEWALK-64-Bit]
name=Spacewalk-Server-64-Bit
baseurl=http://192.168.1.100/yum/EXTRA/SPACEWALK64Bit
gpgcheck=0
enabled=0

My yum is working fine without -c option.

Code:

root@kick:~# yum install quartz --enablerepo=SPACEWALK-64-Bit -q

===============================================================================================================================================================================================
 Package                                                  Arch                                Version                                      Repository                                     Size
===============================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
 quartz                                                   noarch                              1.8.1-3.el5                                  SPACEWALK-64-Bit                              408 k
Installing for dependencies:
 jakarta-commons-collections                              noarch                              3.2.1-3.4.el6                                RHEL_6.2_64_Bit                               523 k
 jakarta-commons-logging                                  noarch                              1.0.4-10.el6                                 RHEL_6.2_64_Bit                                52 k
 spacewalk-slf4j                                          noarch                              1.6.1-1.el5                                  SPACEWALK-64-Bit                               31 k

Transaction Summary
===============================================================================================================================================================================================
Install       4 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
root@kick:~#

Any suggestions to overcome this ?

acid_kewpie · 05-03-2012, 06:37 AM

well it just makes no sense. your yum command says to use "http://192.168.1.100/yum/EXTRA/SPACEWALK64Bit" as a config file, yet in the repo config file, you say that that same location is a baseurl for the repo...

vikas027 · 05-03-2012, 08:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

well it just makes no sense. your yum command says to use "http://192.168.1.100/yum/EXTRA/SPACEWALK64Bit" as a config file, yet in the repo config file, you say that that same location is a baseurl for the repo...

Many thanks acid_kewpie, you have once again helped me.

It was my bad, I was using the wrong syntax (actually I took hint from a website, now which was wrong I think).

This is what I needed. Many thanks again

Code:

yum install quartz -c http://192.168.1.100/repos/spacewalk.repo --enablerepo=SPACEWALK-64-Bit

However, Is there any possibility to use two "-c" switches, in the same yum command.
Below is not working,

Code:

yum install quartz -c http://192.168.1.100/repos/rhel-6.2_64.repo -c http://192.168.1.100/repos/spacewalk.repo

It uses the repo file given in second (or last) "-c" switch.

There may be workaround for this, just wanted to check if two (or more) URLs can be given in a single comamnd by any means.

acid_kewpie · 05-03-2012, 08:13 AM

why can't you just use a local config? If this is scripted, just build one at run time?

vikas027 · 05-03-2012, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

why can't you just use a local config? If this is scripted, just build one at run time?

Yes, I can but just wanted to check whether having two paths is possible or not.

Anyways, I am closing this thread. Thanks again.