CentOS - Dec 2019 - DebugInfo repo broken on purpose

This line in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo 

    baseurl=http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/

?causes commands like ?yum search --enablerepo=* foo? to fail with the obscure
error

    Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'base-debuginfo'

Apparently this is because the debug info RPMs aren?t hosted there any more, per
the page at the top of the site.  However, when I edit that file to point to the
Facebook mirror linked from the top of the debuginfo.centos.org site, I get the
same error, even after assorted remediations: dnf makecache, dnf update, etc.

Any ideas on how to fix it, hopefully in a way that lands in a CentOS 8.next, so
it doesn?t have to be fixed manually?

And in the meantime, is there a short syntax for ?search all repos other than
the debuginfo ones??  I could list every repo in a comma-separated list, but
ugh.

On 12/13/19 2:09 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> This line in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo 
> 
>     baseurl=http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> ?causes commands like ?yum search --enablerepo=* foo? to fail with the
obscure error
> 
>     Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'base-debuginfo'
> 
> Apparently this is because the debug info RPMs aren?t hosted there any
more, per the page at the top of the site.  However, when I edit that file to
point to the Facebook mirror linked from the top of the debuginfo.centos.org
site, I get the same error, even after assorted remediations: dnf makecache, dnf
update, etc.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix it, hopefully in a way that lands in a CentOS
8.next, so it doesn?t have to be fixed manually?
> 
> And in the meantime, is there a short syntax for ?search all repos other
than the debuginfo ones??  I could list every repo in a comma-separated list,
but ugh.
> 

yum search --enablerepo=* --disablerepo=*-debuginfo foo

HTH,
Kay

On 13/12/2019 02:09, Warren Young wrote:
> This line in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Debuginfo.repo 
> 
>     baseurl=http://debuginfo.centos.org/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> ?causes commands like ?yum search --enablerepo=* foo? to fail with the
obscure error
> 
>     Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'base-debuginfo'
> 
> Apparently this is because the debug info RPMs aren?t hosted there any
more, per the page at the top of the site.  However, when I edit that file to
point to the Facebook mirror linked from the top of the debuginfo.centos.org
site, I get the same error, even after assorted remediations: dnf makecache, dnf
update, etc.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix it, hopefully in a way that lands in a CentOS
8.next, so it doesn?t have to be fixed manually?
> 
> And in the meantime, is there a short syntax for ?search all repos other
than the debuginfo ones??  I could list every repo in a comma-separated list,
but ugh.
Well, I guess that it's because repodata weren't even generated .. ?
http://debuginfo.centos.org/8/x86_64/


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Fabian Arrotin
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