Fedora

Hi,

while installing/updating package using yum I am getting (repomd.xml) error

I tried yum clean all but still its not not working, please let me know the possible solution for this.

Regards,
Muzaffar

Hi,

In this case that error appears to be genuine - the mirror that you have configured doesn't have any content for Fedora 16 on it.

Now, Fedora 16 is an end-of-life unsupported release, so it's entirely possible some mirrors aren't carrying content for it any longer. It's also worth pointing out that if you're trying to install updates, there won't have been any in the main repo since February 2013 (since that's when it became unsupported), so that's a pointless exercise anyway.

However, if you absolutely have to fix this (to install a new package, say), you'll need to re-configure your Fedora yum repo to point somewhere that still has content. The (allegedly) current list of mirrors for Fedora 16 x86_64 can be found here:

Mirrors - MirrorManager

Thanks for your reply, I dint find a proper mirror list from that link. is there any other way to make my Fedora 16 to resolve the yum issue. I need to configure Lanforge testing tool on this. let me know how to make it working or any other version which might work without any issues


Thanks,
Muzaffar

Hi,

As best as I can tell, that mirror list is correct. It's just that some/most of those mirrors won't actually be carrying content for Fedora 16 any longer. You'd have to go through each of them, find one that actually works and has all the relevant folders/content still there, then update your Yum repo file to directly use that one.

For example, ftp.heanet.ie seems to have all the Fedora 16 content still. The main packages can be found here:

http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fedora/...4/os/Packages/

However, that brings us on to the second issue. You say you want to install LANforge. That was never a standard part of Fedora, and is not part of the Fedora 16 main OS repo (or the repo of any other release of Fedora, as best as I can tell). No doubt it has various pre-requisites that you'll need from the main Fedora repo (or so I imagine: I've never heard of or dealt with LANforge before, so my only knowledge of it comes from a quick Google search just now). But LANforge itself won't be directly installable via yum from the official Fedora repos, even when you do get them working again.

I have added the below link in my .repo file found the same issue again. Let me know if am doing correct

did yum clean up again and try to list the repo and failed again.

if Fedora 16 is end of life then suggest me which version will have all the repo list

Thanks
Muzaffar

Hi,

I don't think you've quite done that right, no. For starters, each section will need a different baseurl since each section is used for different things, so you can't use the same URL for everything. Also if you are going to be hard-coding it like this, you'll also want to comment out the mirrorlist lines.

So for example, for the main [fedora] section, I imagine you want something like this:

baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fedora/archive/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/

since that's apparently the URL that it was looking for before you made this modification, going by the other commented-out baseurl line that's there. You'll need to similarly change the lines in the other sections to the correct appropriate URL, which you can get from looking at what was there before.

Again though, there's a bigger question here: what are you actually hoping to do ? What is the yum command that you're ultimately hoping to run after you've done all your cleaning and listing ? Which package(s) do you need to install ?

It's also worth pointing out that you can just use that first URL I gave you (the one that directly links to the package directory) do download and install any RPMs you might require, if you can't get your Yum config working in the end.

As for whether you should use Fedora 16: well, no. Absolutely not, if you have any choice at all. It's entirely obsolete, and hasn't received any updates in almost four years, so is bound to be full of countless security holes by now. If you want to know which versions of Fedora are still actively supported and/or receiving updates, then you can check the Wikipedia page on Fedora's version history here.

Fedora version history - Wikipedia

So if you're going to be using Fedora for whatever it is you're wanting to do, you definitely want to be using a version that's still actively supported and has a fair while left in its lifecycle if you possibly can.

Is there any reason for you to stick with Fedora 16? It's fairly easy to upgrade between versions now if you start with a current release.