Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes

With the best of intentions, I grabbed a Fedora 16, live CD, and used it to install F16 on a small, VirtualBox VM.

Once installed, the next step was to pull all the updates.  Or, well, you know, try.
$ sudo yum update
Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
Uh.

Getting past this took time. I tried a bunch o' stuff recommended by the experts of the interwebs.  I turned off (just in case) SELinux.  I made sacrifices to a rubber chicken.  I even read the documentation. Eventually, I found something that worked (sslverify=0 in /etc/yum.conf).  
That the distro has this problem out-of-the-box would seem like a bug.
However, I find I am now reluctant to figure out how to file a bug report, since, as a member of the Fedora team, I might then be asked to help fix it and I have no idea how to.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Q: What goes "Ha ha ha <THUNK!>" ?
A: A man laughing his head off.
Kevin has now assured me that this sequence:
$ yum clean all
$ yum update
would probably have done the trick.  Next time.

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