On Friday 12 December 2008 12:31:47 pm Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Dave Stevens wrote on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:22:46 -0800: > > Anyone know why this happens or what to do? I see the epel mirror has > > changed > > No, the mirror for base changed. > > > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: > > epel. > > It doesn't appear to mirror EPEL: > ftp://ftp.muug.mb.ca/mirror/ > You have likely hardcoded this. > > Kai Thanks, but I only partly understand. here is the (part) yum.conf ----------------- list ----------------------- [admin at cserver etc]$ cd yum.repos.d [admin at cserver yum.repos.d]$ ls CentOS-Base.repo epel.repo virtualmin.repo CentOS-Media.repo epel-testing.repo [admin at cserver yum.repos.d]$ ls -al total 44 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 9 23:16 . drwxr-xr-x 115 root root 12288 Dec 11 21:40 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2049 Jun 19 06:48 CentOS-Base.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626 Jun 19 06:48 CentOS-Media.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 954 Apr 25 2008 epel.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1054 Apr 25 2008 epel-testing.repo -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 410 Jul 19 2007 virtualmin.repo [admin at cserver yum.repos.d]$ cat epel.repo [epel] name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - $basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/$basearch mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=epel-5&arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL -- Canada must refuse to be entangled in any more wars fought to make the world safe for capitalism. -- The Regina Manifesto, 1933