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Not sure what's up here -- I tried to upgrade to Fedora 11 using yum and the mirrorlist.txt file disappeared entirely.
Code:
# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
Eg. </metalink>/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again
Anyone have a working mirrorlist I can use or have any idea what's going on here? Thanks.
Thanks - any idea what code I can use to update the mirrorlist when the time comes? I'm a bit afraid now that my mirrorlist file is completely missing.
I got a similar issue. It always says Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml). Using baseurl instead of mirrorlist, yum works ok. See mine as example
I noticed that whenever I do "yum -y update", even if I put content in /var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt, it blanks out. What I mean here is that it's empty whenever I go back to vi and says it's a new file.
And then I get the error again:
Code:
# yum -y update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
Eg. </metalink>/
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again
I strongly suspect that something has gone wrong in the upgrade process. This is why most people recommend a clean install where at all possible. I personally do a clean install because I've heard too many stories like this in regards to upgrades.
If a clean install is not an option, my suggestion to you would be to search the Fedora for fixes.
linus, not easily -- an upgrade using yum would've been ideal. I've been doing doing this successfully via yum since ... erm, the early Fedora days. Never had a problem
Is there another type of upgrade I can try first? preupgrade? (I've never done it before.) Anything else?
billymayday, you mention "search the Fedora for fixes." I suppose you mean some Fedora forum. Where should I look?
Thanks and apologies for the questions -- like I said, this never happened before and it's a bit frustrating
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My mirrorlist.txt file is still nonexistent.
