Access updates on Uni sever

pistol53 · 05-06-2008, 09:27 AM

Hi,
I am living on campus at a University where updates for Fedora 8 (plus other releases) are available on the Computer Science sever. I have altered the fedora-updates.repo file but when I type in yum check-update into the shell I get the following-
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: development. Please verify its path and try again

If anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

acid_kewpie · 05-07-2008, 03:36 AM

well that will be trying to do an http interaction with that server, so it's really just standard web / networking issues at stake here. take the URL in the repo file and try to access it in firefox, curl, wget or such like, and it should fail in exactly the same way. maybe you have dns issues or something like that.

billymayday · 05-07-2008, 03:51 AM

Posting the exact messages and probably the relevant section of the repo file would help.

Can't your CS dept. help?

pistol53 · 05-08-2008, 02:15 AM

The address works fine in Firefox. It worked from the administrator's computer although he would have been on the server where the updates are located whereas I'm on a another server. The error message is as i posted it. As for asking the network administrator, I'm waiting on him getting back from leave.