If you still have an old Fedora 7/8 installation like I do, when you try to install a new package with Yum, you’ll find yourself staring at the following error.

% yum install cvs
Repository updates is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository updates-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository updates-testing is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository updates-testing-source is listed more than once in the configuration
Repository development-source is listed more than once in the configuration
fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: releases-everything-os. Please verify its path and try again

Well, after half day of poking around, I eventually found out that some smart soul at Fedora decided to move the repo to a different site on 19-Mar-2009 and only left an Readme at http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/README

The repository was moved:

http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/

Here’s what you need to do to get your Fedora 7 or 8 installation back on its feet.

• Edit /etc/yum.conf to change all reference of “http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases” to “http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases”.  Here’s what I did with vi

% vi /etc/yum.conf  and run the following search and replace command

:%s/download.fedora.redhat.com\/pub\/fedora\/linux/archives.fedoraproject.org\/p
ub\/archive\/fedora\/linux/g

• Then run “yum update”.  You should be back in business as soon as the command completes.

Good luck and have fun

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