Re: Cannot Reposync Rawhide - [Errno 256] No more mirrorstotry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:yum-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of James Antill
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:59 PM
> To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified
> Subject: Re: [Yum] Cannot Reposync Rawhide - [Errno 256] No more
> mirrorstotry.
> 
> "Corey Garst" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > I was just experimenting with reposync by itself and I ended up with
> the
> > same error "Error setting up repositories: Cannot retrieve
repository
> > metadata
> > (repomd.xml) for repository: Fedora-Rawhide-i386. Please verify its
> path
> > and try again"
> >
> > So now I've trashed my Fedora-Rawhide-i386 repo and all associated
> cache
> > and everything and started over with a completely different mirror
at
> > http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/
> >
> > I've named the new repo Rawhide-i386 to make sure it wouldn't
> conflict
> > with anything cached. I got this error..
> >
> > # /usr/bin/reposync -l
> > --config=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/Rawhide-i386/.origin/Rawhide-
> i386.
> > repo --repoid=Rawhide-i386 --
> download_path=/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror
> > -a i686
> > Rawhide-i386/primary_db
> > | 8.4 MB     00:01
> > Error setting up repositories: failure:
> >
>
repodata/4820e40a2e97cdd499424a2995a925e86f1af3b2465e23ebbaa0d431b4069d
> 2
> > 9-primary.sqlite.bz2 from Rawhide-i386: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
> to
> > try.
> 
>  The above implies that yum download it (it is 8.4MB), but it then
> failed. Are you running this on RHEL-5? If so do you have the
> python-hashlib package installed?
> 
> --
> James Antill -- [email protected]

This is CentOS 5.3. I just installed python-hashlib and it seems to be
downloading all of the RPMs..!

This will take probably a while. How would I have known to install this
package? Is this documented somewhere?

-CG