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Updating FC5 from local mirror site fails

Mandelbrot
By Mandelbrot ยท 4 replies
Aug 15, 2006
  1. I have installed Fedora Core 5 on my workstation and it is working quite well. However I have been instructed that I need to update my installation. Using the instructions provided at http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html I ran the 'yum -y update' command. I was logged in as root.

    Although I am using a 1Mb ADSL connection, available bandwidth to countries overseas is very low. I typically get a download speed of 6 to 8 kB/s. So you can imagine the Fedora update taking very long.

    I found that there is a mirror site in my neighboring country that can service this update at much higher speed. In order to do this I was instructed to edit the fedora-updates.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d directory. The file now looks like this:

    [updates]
    name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates
    #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
    #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
    mirrorlist=http://mirror.averse.net/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/i386
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

    [updates-debuginfo]
    name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug
    baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
    enabled=0
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

    [updates-source]
    name=Fedora Core $releasever - Updates Source
    #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
    mirrorlist=http://mirror.averse.net/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/SRPMS/
    enabled=0
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

    Trying the 'yum -y update' again fails very quickly. I believe the error messages, there are a lot of them, seem to indicate that yum can't find the server.

    I am sure I am doing something wrong or missing some steps. I have very good experience in the Windows NT/2K/XP environment. I am however, a relative newbie in Linux although the concepts are not difficult to understand.

    Please help. It will be very much appreciated.

    Mandelbrot

    ps. This is pretty long message. I hope it does not annoy anyone.
     
    Aug 15, 2006
    #1
  2. Nodsu

    Nodsu TS Rookie Posts: 5,837   +6

    The exact error messages would be helpful. I can access these URLs just fine from here. Do you have to use a proxy for internet access?

    You can get a copy of the yum errors in "filename" if you run "yum -y update 2>&1 | tee filename"
     
    Aug 16, 2006
    #2
  3. Mandelbrot

    Mandelbrot TS Rookie Topic Starter

    Thank you for your help.

    Attached is the error file. I have deleted much of the middle section of the file due to its size. In any case, it was just a repetition, as you can see.

    Mandelbrot
     

    Attached Files:

    Aug 16, 2006
    #3
  4. Nodsu

    Nodsu TS Rookie Posts: 5,837   +6

    Ah. You have to use the "baseurl" keyword if you specify the URL of the YUM repo directory. If you use mirrorlist, yum expects a file listing a bunch of URLs. In your case, it receives a HTML page and doesn't know what to do with it.

    Rewrite your config file to read baseurl=http://mirror.averse.net/fedora....
     
    Aug 16, 2006
    #4
  5. Mandelbrot

    Mandelbrot TS Rookie Topic Starter

    Thank you very much for the infomation. It is very much appreciated

    Mandelbrot
     
    Aug 16, 2006
    #5
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