FC4: repomd.xml: Error 256

[Paul King]

You have suggested a mirror site for Fedora. That is not exactly what is
needed. WHat is needed is a parseable copy of an xml file (probably the
same name as my local file: repomd.xml) which satisfies yum. Apparently,
there is something wrong with the copy it appears to refer to, located
at: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/repo

It has been said in other discussion lists that a broken remote repo
file shouldn't crash yum; but it does. Surely duke.edu is not the only
repo file on the internet.

Funny thing, though, when I used wget on the url, the result was what
looks like an xml header. I don't know xml, but I can see that there
does not appear to be any open tags that would crash a parser.

Here is what wget fetched:
=================================START======================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!ELEMENT repository (name*, contact*, description*, key*, metadata)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT contact (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT key (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST key type CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT metadata (data+)>
<!ELEMENT data (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST data type CDATA #REQUIRED
               timestamp CDATA #REQUIRED
               href CDATA #REQUIRED
               xml:base CDATA #IMPLIED>
==================================END=======================

Paul King

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 10:41 -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> Paul King wrote:
> > I tried to update a package using yum and got this error:
> > 
> > Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: xcyb-stable
> > failure: repodata/repomd.xml from xcyb-stable: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to 
> > try.
> > 
> > I looked this up on the web, and I find that this is due to the fact that the 
> > mirror which yum tried had a corrupt xml file. Anyone knows of a decent mirror 
> > site?
> 
> Try http://tank.cns.utoronto.ca/fedora/
> 
> Jamon
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