Re: Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> Steven McKinney wrote:
>
> I wouldn't count on it being flawless - but since RHEL/CentOS 5 is largely 
> based on Fedora Core 6, it may be possible to yum update from Fedora Core 6 
> to CentOS 5.
>
> It's probably better to just do a clean install though.

No, it is not likely.

rhel5/centos5 branched from fc6 BETA.

so the version numbers of what's in fc6 final + updates will be much 
higher than rhel5.

reinstall is the only sane option.

-sv