I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :( Any other ideas? On 19 October 2015 at 18:01, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote:> > > > On 19 Oct 2015, at 04:22, "John Cenile" <jcenile1983 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > When performing a yum update, it fails because it's trying to download > from: > > > > mirror.centos.org/centos/*6.6*/extras/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml > > > > Which fails due to the fact that the entire 6.6 directory is empty on all > > of the mirrors I have checked > > I had something similar happen recently when upgrading a box from 6.6 to > 6.7 > > I 'fixed' it by running 'yum clean all' first > > I did think it odd at the time - but didn't get round to trying to find > out why ... > > James Pearson > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, John Cenile wrote:> I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :( > > Any other ideas?Have you manually set releasever in your yum config? As a short term fix, maybe you should. jh
John Cenile wrote:> I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :(Also check you don't have the file /etc/yum/vars/releasever - the contents of this will override the value of $releasever in the repo files James Pearson
Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately that file doesn't exist. I'm very confused as to why it's trying to download from /6.6/. The output of rpm -qi centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.x86_64 is: Name : centos-release Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 6 Vendor: CentOS Release : 4.el6.centos.10 Build Date: Mon 25 Feb 2013 07:57:43 PM EST Install Date: Fri 05 Jul 2013 09:32:33 AM EST Build Host: c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM: centos-release-6-4.el6.centos.10.src.rpm Size : 32670 License: GPLv2 Signature : RSA/SHA1, Sat 02 Mar 2013 01:01:26 AM EST, Key ID 0946fca2c105b9de Packager : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org> Summary : CentOS release file Description : CentOS release files On 19 October 2015 at 19:59, James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com> wrote:> John Cenile wrote: > >> I have tried yum clean all multiple times, no luck. :( >> > > Also check you don't have the file /etc/yum/vars/releasever - the contents > of this will override the value of $releasever in the repo files > > > James Pearson > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >