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yohahoy
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Restore CentOS Repositories

Post by yohahoy » 2017/09/04 12:24:08

Is there some actions to restore all current release repositories?
Please help.
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Re: Restore Centos Repositories

Post by TrevorH » 2017/09/04 12:42:54

The CentOS supplied files live under /etc/yum.repos.d and mostly should be owned by the centos-release package. Using yum reinstall centos-release should create new .rpmnew packages for any that have been modified. If you've broken it to the point where yum reinstall won't work then download the most recent centos-release rpm from one of the mirrors and use yum localinstall on the downloaded file.
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Re: Restore Centos Repositories

Post by yohahoy » 2017/09/04 13:10:50

I removed all inside /etc/yum.repos.d
Do command

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yum reinstall centos-release
getting:

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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
There are no enabled repos.
 Run "yum repolist all" to see the repos you have.
 To enable Red Hat Subscription Management repositories:
     subscription-manager repos --enable <repo>
 To enable custom repositories:
     yum-config-manager --enable <repo>
So this command is not complete, maybe we need to do something more?
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Re: Restore Centos Repositories

Post by yohahoy » 2017/09/04 13:12:00

I need to clean this folder to start all from scratch.
And its real remote server.
So maybe I need some rpm containing this data or anything related.
Thanks in advance.

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Re: Restore CentOS Repositories

Post by yohahoy » 2017/09/04 13:18:30

But ok I found base repo file. And this command works.

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Re: Restore CentOS Repositories

Post by TrevorH » 2017/09/04 16:29:27

If you remove the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/ *before* you use yum then it has no repos to use! This is why I suggested doing the reinstall and then using the .rpmnew files that will create.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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Re: Restore CentOS Repositories

Post by yohahoy » 2017/09/04 17:27:24

TrevorH wrote:If you remove the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d/ *before* you use yum then it has no repos to use! This is why I suggested doing the reinstall and then using the .rpmnew files that will create.
Thank you for helping.

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