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Support Ev.-Theol. Fak. Uni Bonn

2005-Mar-04 14:18 UTC

[Centos] Problem with yum update

Hi all,
i have installed CentOS 4.0rc1, imported the rpm key and tried do update
the yum database. The following error occured:
[root@server03 ~]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
contrib                   100% |=========================|  328 B    00:00
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Space required
after the Public Identifier
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
                                                 ^
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SystemLiteral " or
'' expected
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
                                                 ^
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SYSTEM or PUBLIC,
the URI is missing
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
                                                 ^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: contrib
Error importing repomd.xml from contrib: Error: could not parse file
//var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml

Karanbir Singh

2005-Mar-04 14:35 UTC

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[Centos] Problem with yum update

Support Ev.-Theol. Fak. Uni Bonn wrote:> Hi all,
> i have installed CentOS 4.0rc1, imported the rpm key and tried do update
> the yum database. The following error occured:
You seem to have just hit the End Of Life on Rc1 ....

any reason why you are not installing the Final Release ?

- K

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GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

Johnny Hughes

2005-Mar-04 14:35 UTC

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[Centos] Problem with yum update

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:19 +0100, Support Ev.-Theol. Fak. Uni Bonn
wrote:> Hi all,
> i have installed CentOS 4.0rc1, imported the rpm key and tried do update
> the yum database. The following error occured:
> [root@server03 ~]# yum update
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up Repos
> contrib                   100% |=========================|  328 B    00:00
> //var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Space required
> after the Public Identifier
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
>                                                  ^
> //var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SystemLiteral "
or
> '' expected
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
>                                                  ^
> //var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml:1: parser error : SYSTEM or PUBLIC,
> the URI is missing
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
>                                                  ^
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: contrib
> Error importing repomd.xml from contrib: Error: could not parse file
> //var/cache/yum/contrib/repomd.xml
>
>
rpm -Fvh
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/centos-
release-4-0.1.i386.rpm

(all one line) then try again :)

(see the  e-mail from Karanbir Singh of today concerning the whole
process)
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Johnny Hughes
<http://www.HughesJR.com/>
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