On 10/07/2015 12:56 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 10/07/2015 11:14 AM, Shane wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Fedora18 x86_64. (Yes, it's old.) Within the last few days I
found that I cannot install or list anything from the fedora-18 repo via yum. I get the
typical errors everybody complains about "no repomd" and "metalink.xml does
not exist". Common workarounds from google searches haven't worked.
>
> I opened the link spit out by yum
"http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-18&arch=x86_64" in a
browser. It downloaded a metalink file (no .xml suffix). The 3rd (or so) line of the
file has the following dubious message.
>
> # repo = fedora-18 arch = x86_64 error: invalid repo or arch
>
> Following this line is a HUGE listing of available repos and architectures. There
is nothing shown for fedora-18 arch i386 or x86_64. In fact, even fedora-source-18 repo
is missing. I don't think this is a yum problem on my system.
>
> Is there something else I can try (yum-wise)? If I need to report it then where?
I'm quite certain that this is the wrong list.
>
Nothing. F18 was EOL a long time ago. Updates via yum aren't available.
Well, in my first paragraph, I did specifically state that I cannot
list or install packages. I'm not concerned about updates - I already
know that F18 is EOL and that updates aren't available.
Anyway, it seems somebody heard complaints or just figured out the
problem. F18 repo is working for x86_64 arch again.
If you need something from the last time things were updated you need
to find them and download them manually from
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/updates/18/x86... and
you'll need to resolve the dependencies yourself.
Just because a repo is EOL doesn't mean that yum won't work. Repos
continue to support installation of packages with dependency resolution.
Thanks.
Shane