[CentOS] Bad repo file

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 02:43 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
> I suggest you try coping the file somewhere else (ie making a backup) and 
> then cutting out everything except for one [..] section from it and seeing 
> which if any of those work/break...
> 
> Cheers,
> MaZe.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Lorin B Pino wrote:
> 
> > Craig White wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:11 -0600, Lorin B Pino wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Jim Perrin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>> On 3/19/06, Lorin B Pino <ljpino at grundyec.net> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>
> >>>> 
> >>>>> I have yum working with dags and dries, etc, but I have done something
> >>>>> to the main repo file that causes yum to error.  Can anyone tell me what
> >>>>> is wrong with this file?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 
> >>>> What is the error that yum gives you?
> >>>><snip sigs and yum output>

> >> ---
> >> you didn't by some chance edit it with Windows did you?
> >> 
> >> Edit it with another editor? Which editor?
> >> 
> >> Craig
> >><snip sigs and "no I didn't edit...>

To eliminate editor concerns, may I suggest an "od -c" of the files? If
your line endings of other than "\n" you have a problem. Otherwise not
likely. Also, see if you see unexpected whitespace embedded or at the
end of something.

Lastly, "man -k yum" and man the docs listed there. Something might jump
out at you that makes you go "hmmmm...."

GL, HTH
Bill
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