On Mon, August 1, 2005 10:46 am, Dave Gutteridge said:

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That is correct. What do you get with the command: yum --enablerepo=centosplus list | grep centosplus

Here is what I get:

[root@localhost ~]# yum --enablerepo=centosplus list | grep centosplus Error getting repository data for centosplus, repository not found

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If that doesn't work, what is the output of the command: rpm -q yum centos-yumconf centos-release

Here is the output from that command:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q yum centos-yumconf centos-release yum-2.2.1-1.centos4 centos-yumconf-4-4.2 centos-release-4-1.2

Does this shed light on the problem?

No, those are correct. Based on that it should work.

Can you send your /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo files.

(If you want, you can send them to me personally and not posted to the mailing list)

On Mon, August 1, 2005 12:22 pm, Dave Gutteridge said:

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Can you send your /etc/yum.conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo files.

Sure. Here are the contents of both:

------------ /etc/yum.conf ----------------

[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d

[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release exclude=webmin installonlypkgs=kernel* #kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported kernel-hugemem-unsupported tolerant=1 exactarch=1

[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ #baseurl=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-4/$releasever/os/$basearch... #baseurl=http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-4/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1

#released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ #baseurl=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-4/$releasever/updates/$bas... #baseurl=http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-4/$releasever/updates/$basear... gpgcheck=1

#packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ #baseurl=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-4/$releasever/addons/$base... #baseurl=http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-4/$releasever/addons/$basearc... gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ #baseurl=http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/caosity/centos-4/$releasever/extras/$base... #baseurl=http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/cAos/centos-4/$releasever/extras/$basearc... gpgcheck=1

#packages in testing #[testing] #name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ #gpgcheck=1

------------ /etc/yum.conf ends----------------

------------/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo ----------------

[base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1

#released updates [update] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1

#packages used/produced in the build but not released [addons] name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0

#contrib - packages by Centos Users [contrib] name=CentOS-$releasever - Contrib baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/contrib/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0

#packages in testing [testing] name=CentOS-$releasever - Testing baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/testing/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0

------------/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo ends ----------------

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OK .. .you have stuff repeated in yum.conf that doesn't need to be there...

make your yum.conf say this only:

[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 exclude=webmin

#-----------------------------end

Then create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo that contains this:

[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

#----------------------------End

That should solve your issues

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:47 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:

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OK .. .you have stuff repeated in yum.conf that doesn't need to be there...

Thanks! This worked perfectly. However, I'm curious. Why did having all those other listings of repositories cause the problem?

I suspect that yum stopped parsing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo when it encountered the entry that was duplicated in /etc/yum.conf.

Before, when I was trying to install Xine, I ended up having to put all of them in there for it to work.

Should not have to put anything "extra" in /etc/yum.conf if you add the appropriate *.repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ as is currently preferred; although either approach should work as long as you are consistent and avoid duplicate labels. In earlier incarnations of yum there was only /etc/yum.conf and no /etc/yum.repos.d/, so some instructions still show repos being defined there, and some still prefer to follow the old habits.

Phil