[TriLUG] and now a yum question

David McDowell turnpike420 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 15 13:30:49 EST 2005


somewhere in /etc/yum.repos.d

in the CentOS I just looked at, it is /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo


On 12/15/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> Where all does yum look to find repo info?
>
> I'm seeing some really weird behavior from yum and I can't figure out
> where it's getting its mirror choices.
>
> Mainly, I'm running FC3 but command-line yum commands keep looking at
> FC2 repos....but the thing is, I can't find any yum configurations that
> mention the repos it's looking for.
>
> For example:
> % yum install kernel-source
> ...snipping...
> Trying other mirror.
> http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>
> I can't find a single yum-related config file that mentions
> ftp.dulug.duke.edu AT ALL.  Not in /etc/yum.repos.d/, not in
> /etc/yum.conf, not in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/..  nowhere.  Where else should
> I be looking?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
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