On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org> wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Chris Ball wrote:
> Yum doesn't work here on os8 for xo-1.75, it gives:
>
> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora.
>
> I discovered that "sed -ei 's/https/http/g'
/etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo"
> fixes the problem; maybe we're not shipping the https cert or something.
Dennis Gilmore worked it out on IRC -- my clock wasn't in the right
year, with the result that the SSL cert wasn't in its valid range.
(It's a shame the error from yum doesn't distinguish between a simple
404 and an SSL transaction error.)
So, if you see the above error and no-one else seems to be having
problems, check your system date. :)
Yes, I discovered this week we don't ship any form of ntpdate or means
of setting the hw clock via ntp with the XO releases, the other thing
was also dig/host/nslookup. Any reasons for missing those useful
utils?
Peter