On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 5:29 AM Carrol Riddle <ebox...@scishare.com> wrote:
>
> XO's attempting to run YUM update or install are unable to use fedora mirror 
> sites (https://) but able to use primary fedora site (http://).
>
> Is this a matter of https vs http / ca-certificates or changes in mirror 
> structures ?  Ca-certificates update have not been done, but could be done.
>
>  Running OLPC 13.2.10 with current date / time and hwclock -w to sync.
>
> Primaries used by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo and commenting out 
> mirrorlist line and uncommenting baseurl line (and adding "archive" to url 
> path after /pub/).
>
> There are no entries in yum.log and error message is:
> "Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora/18/i386.  Please verify its 
> path and try again."
>
> My specific case is trying to install rpmfusion in preparing to install 
> exfat-utils and fuse-exfat ,  but occurs with other installs that have been 
> done in the past.

I'm guessing you might need to update for content that has been
archived, I thought the mirror manager dealt with redirects
automatically there but I don't know exactly.
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