[CentOS] DebugInfo repo broken on purpose
Kay Diederichs
kay.diederichs at uni-konstanz.de
Fri Dec 13 08:31:05 UTC 2019
On 12/13/19 2:09 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> This line in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
>
> baseurl=http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/
>
> …causes commands like “yum search --enablerepo=* foo” to fail with the obscure error
>
> Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'base-debuginfo'
>
> Apparently this is because the debug info RPMs aren’t hosted there any more, per the page at the top of the site. However, when I edit that file to point to the Facebook mirror linked from the top of the debuginfo.centos.org site, I get the same error, even after assorted remediations: dnf makecache, dnf update, etc.
>
> Any ideas on how to fix it, hopefully in a way that lands in a CentOS 8.next, so it doesn’t have to be fixed manually?
>
> And in the meantime, is there a short syntax for “search all repos other than the debuginfo ones”? I could list every repo in a comma-separated list, but ugh.
>
yum search --enablerepo=* --disablerepo=*-debuginfo foo
HTH,
Kay
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