Yet another user overstrained by yum...

the-undertaker · 03-27-2009, 03:57 PM

Hey guys!
I got a problem with setting up a yum repo on my rhel5.2 machine...

I want to setup the switch-mirror from switzerland in yum for installing software. I did the necessary things in /etc/yum.conf and also created a /etc/yum.repos.d/switch.repo file.

It seems to werk well downloading the repodata from the mirror, but if i execute "yum list available" it just gives me no packages at all...

Here are my config files:

# /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=10
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

---

# /etc/yum.repos.d/switch.repo
[switch]
name=Switch Mirror
baseurl=ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/
gpgcheck=0
#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release
enabled=1

I google all night long but just didnt found any solution. I hope anyone can help me

lazlow · 03-27-2009, 05:45 PM

Your baseurl does not exist.

Quote:

http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/r...r/en/os/SRPMS/

may be what you are looking for.

You do realize that SRPMS are source and not binaries? They will not run until you compile/rebuild them.

the-undertaker · 03-28-2009, 04:34 AM

Indeed this baseurl exists, as I said It works fine with reading the repodata...

Another helpful Information may be that I disabled the GPG-Check for this "switch"-repo, as I don't find any GPG-Key on the server.

Maybe this would help you:

[root@prometheus ~]# yum list available
Loading "security" plugin
"rhnplugin" plugin is disabled
Running "config" handler for "security" plugin
Yum Version: 3.2.8
COMMAND: yum list available
Installroot: /
Ext Commands:

available
Reading Local RPMDB
Setting up Package Sacks
switch 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Running "exclude" handler for "security" plugin
Setting up Package Sacks
Running "exclude" handler for "security" plugin
[root@prometheus ~]#

And what about these SRPMS? In that repository from switch (ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/redhat...5Server/en/os/), all directorys are empty except "SRPMS", so I thought I just take this dir.

the-undertaker · 03-30-2009, 02:32 AM

sorry for pushing

Am I right that there is not really a public repository for red hat enterprise 5?

So how do I get yum to install software from an open repository?

lazlow · 03-30-2009, 04:05 AM

No, RHEL is a subscription based distro. You have to pay in order to get access to their binaries, but not the srpms. There other repos (atrpms, rpmfusion, rpmforge, etc) for non-base packages.

Centos is RHEL with the logos removed. It is free to download/update and is built from the same source code(minus the logos). The other non-base repos work with Centos too.

the-undertaker · 03-30-2009, 04:15 AM

thank you very much for your answer

I just changed the baseurl to the path linking to the centos 5.2 directory on the mirror. seems to work now, very cool! I still can't imagine that centos is the same as redhat, just with the name and the logo striped out of it.