[CentOS] YUM error - are repositories down or something?

Mon Sep 19 12:18:38 UTC 2005
Mike Kercher <mike at CamaroSS.net>

centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Monday, September 19, 2005 6:25
AM:

>> I see that problem from here as well, and apt.sw.be is indeed not
>> available at this time.
>> the one I use ( and is working at the moment ) :
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/
> 
> I think I installed the mirror you recommended. Why I say "I
> think" is that I put the URL for that mirror inside the file
> /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo like so:
> 
> [dag]
> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
> 
> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Mirror
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/
> 
> And then I ran the YUM install command again, and it worked.
> 
> But I notived it ran without saying anything about checking
> mirrors, so perhaps the original Dag repository just happened
> to start working again anyway.
> 
> So... do I have the mirror URL reference in the right place?
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

The URL should be:

 
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basear
ch/dag

Mike