using centos repos under rhel

sycamorex · 05-25-2008, 07:31 AM

Hi,
I downloaded a 30-day evaluation version of RHEL 5.1.
I installed it and registered with RHN.
However, I'd like to a few systems, so I installed
it on a different partition as well (obviously I can
register this system with RHN as I don't have any more
subscriptions).
I'd like to use Centos repos. I copied centos-base.repo and centos-media.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/ on RHEL
but when I yum update, I get the following error:

Code:

[root@localhost xtd8865]# yum update
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Server is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

How can I solve it?
thanks

lazlow · 05-25-2008, 09:57 AM

You need to shut off the RHN repos. Open the RedHat repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d and set enable=0 rather than enable=1.

sycamorex · 05-26-2008, 10:49 AM

Thanks for the reply, however it's already set to 0

Quote:

[rhel-debuginfo]
name=Red Hat Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/$releasever/en/os/$basearch/Debuginfo/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

I also disabled /yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf (actually I disabled all the plugins) but still I get this error.

Quote:

[root@localhost pluginconf.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Server is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras

This is my base centos repository:

Quote:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=addons
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Quote:

[root@localhost pluginconf.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Server is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: extras

I then uncommented all those 'baseurl' lines, but it didn't help:

Quote:

root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - 5Server is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5Ser...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: base

lazlow · 05-26-2008, 11:05 AM

Sorry I missed it. The problem is that rather than saying version 5 your setup is saying version 5 server.
Try switching to something like:

Quote:

mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/os/i386

sycamorex · 05-26-2008, 11:35 AM

thanks, it makes sense now. I had to run 'yum update' a few times, but finally it works.

regards
sycamorex