Can’t install new rpms using yum? Update won’t work? Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again. Chances are if you’re seeing this error message the repository files are not the problem.

Custom RPM repositories may modify comps.xml to include custom rpms, rebuilt packages, or ports. Existing Existing groups can be modified or you can create new groups entirely. Packages can install by default, optional, mandatory, or conditional.

These packages are not available in the out-of-the-box configuration when you install Ubuntu 10.04. To get sun java packages such as sun-java6-jre or sun-java6-doc, you need to give yourself access to additional repositories… Now try searching for or installing one of those packages you were missing.

Recreate your repository using the “-d” switch to include sqlite files. Run repoview with the path to your repository as your webserver sees it. If your structure is somewhere outside of the web root, just link to it and use the linked path. Easy mode. If you don’t give it an output path, you’ll find the repoview directory under the repository directory.

LftpFS is a read-only network filesystem with caching for smart mirror of sites. Useful for mirroring of Linux repositories. It’s based on FUSE and LFTP client, which supports FTP, HTTP, FISH, SFTP, HTTPS, FTPS protocols and works over proxies.

The google repo has google-desktop-linux, google-chrome-unstable, and a ton of other packages. Or you can just open the two links in a browser and download/install them from there. You’ll find things like the kmod-VirtualBox-OSE kernel module, mythtv, xmms, vlc, ffmpeg, libmpeg2, gstreamer, and Nestopia (remember nesticle, the Nintendo emulator?) here. You can get Adobe Reader here if you want to go full retard. I use a much faster pdf reader called “Poppler” (package name is poppler) that you can get in the standard repos.

I can’t figure out how to make yum ignore dependencies and I can’t find it by googling either. The yum-allowdowngrade package doesn’t do what I expected it to do. So I’ll just have to ignore yum for now and force rpm to do the job.