[clue-tech] CentOS 5 update problems

[Mark G. Harvey]

Kevin,

Thanks for your reply.  My replies below.  

Mark

--- Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> I think the problem here is that there is a proxy in the way and it's
> not handling the mirror redirection right. 
> 
> See: 
> 
> http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq
> (question 5)

my script to check the firewall & proxy issue ... 

# echo -e "TRACE / HTTP/1.1\nHost: yum-server.example.com\n\n" | nc yum-server.example.com 80

# my two mirror site choices
# http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/
# http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/

echo -e "TRACE / HTTP/1.1\nHost: mirror.centos.org\n\n" | nc mirror.centos.org 80
echo -e "TRACE / HTTP/1.1\nHost: centos-distro.cavecreek.net\n\n" | nc
centos-distro.cavecreek.net 80

results ... 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:39:44 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: message/http

2d
TRACE / HTTP/1.1
Host: mirror.centos.org


0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:39:44 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: message/http

37
TRACE / HTTP/1.1
Host: centos-distro.cavecreek.net


0

I'm not seeing anything wrong with the output, but then again, I'm no expert.  

 
> If you edit your /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo files, comment the mirrorlist=
> line (with a # at the beginning of the line), and add a baseurl= line
> pointing to a single site, does it work?

I remarked them out & added a second baseurl= ... tried both of these for the baseurl= ... 
neither worked ... 
  http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/RPMS/
  http://centos-distro.cavecreek.net/centos/5.0/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml

> $releasever is filled in by your release... you are using centos5, so
> it's a "5". $basearch is your machine arch, so i386 or x86_64 or ppc or
> whatever type of machine you have. 

my release = 5
my arch = i386



       
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