FC4: repomd.xml: Error 256

[Jamon Camisso]

Paul King wrote:
> 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=======================

Try this then? 
http://tank.cns.utoronto.ca/fedora/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml

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