I am attempting to restore some software
on a few machines that are currently installed with Fedora 10, and have
discovered a problem with the mirror list. When going to http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist\?repo=fedora-10\&arch=x86_64
to retrieve the list of mirrors to download packages from, all of the URLs
provided are incorrect, having replaced "fedora" in the results
with "a" - this has shown to be the case for both the fedora-10
repo, as well as the updates-released-source-f10 repo. To determine
the extent of the problem, I checked with both the x86_64 and i386 versions
of the repo mirror list from fedora 7 through 12, and found that the problem
exists only with Fedora 9 and 10, but for all repositories related to it.
In each case, the repo list comes back looking like this:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-source-f10&arch=x86_64
produces:
# repo = updates-released-source-f10
arch = source Using Internet2 country = US country = global
http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora-archive/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/a/linux/updates/10/SRPMS/
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=x86_64
produces:
# repo = fedora-10 arch = x86_64 Using
Internet2 country = US country = global
http://archive.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/
http://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/
http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/archive.fedoraproject.org/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/
http://archive.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora-archive/a/linux/releases/10/Everything/x86_64/os/
In each case, the list is considerably
shorter than those provided for releases 7, 8, 11, and 12, and as you can
see from the URLs, the /fedora/ which should be before linux/releases/...
has been replaced with /a/, which renders yum unable to locate the repository
contents.
While I can fix this on my local machine
by manually inputting repository URLs, it's not a "proper"
fix, and I felt that you should be made aware of it, as it appears to be
a recent bug - I was able to update another of these machines (which has
fedora 10 on it) a few days ago without problems.
Terry McKay
System Administrator,
Sharcnet (U of Windsor location)
(519) 253-3000 x3979