Re: local repo error

Am Sonntag, 25. Dezember 2005 04:05 schrieb seth vidal:
> On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 06:22 +0500, abac wrote:
> > [updates]
> > name=extra - updates
> > baseurl=file://extra/updates/
> > enabled=1
> >
> > now when i run yum update get this error for the local repo:
> > dries 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
> > file://extra/updates/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno
> > 2] No such file or directory: '/updates/repodata/repomd.xml'
> > Trying other mirror.
> > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates
> > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from updates: [Errno 256] No more
> > mirrors to try.
> > please help me.
>
> file:///extras/updates
>
> notice the 3rd / there.
>
> that's b/c file url's break up like:
> file://HOSTNAME/path
>
> so you have to do 3 slashes.

Just one does fine here, too, btw..

Merry Xmas,
Pete