[LON-CAPA-admin] yum update failed for Centos 7

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi Bob,

> If looks like the yum environment variable $relreasever resolves to '7.0'.

Thanks for reporting this.

CentOS 7 was still in beta when LON-CAPA 2.11.0 was released, and at  
that time the yum.conf I provided was reporting a $releasever of 7.

Anyway I have updated the value for distroverpkg in the  
centos7_loncapa_yum.conf file available from   
http://install.loncapa.org so that CentOS 7.0 will now report a  
$releasever of 7.

> I modified the conf file manually to point to the right path and it looks
> like it ran fine.

I would recommend either (a) downloading the updated yum.conf file again:

wget -O /etc/yum.conf  
http://install.loncapa.org/versions/centos/7/centos7_loncapa_yum.conf

or (b) modifying your yum.conf file by reversing the changes you made,  
i.e., reinstate use of $releasever (in place of 7.0) in yum.conf, but  
then replacing:

distroverpkg=redhat-release

with

distroverpkg=centos-release

in your existing file.

> Is there anything else that I need to do?

No.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting Bob Gonzales <rgonzal at binghamton.edu>:

> Hi,
>
> When trying to install the latest loncapa on centos 7 I get the following
> error after installing the 'centos7_loncapa_yum.conf' and running 'yum
> update':
>
> http://install.loncapa.org/centos/loncapa/7.0/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml:
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found
>
> If looks like the yum environment variable $relreasever resolves to '7.0'.
> The actual path appears to be:
>
> http://install.loncapa.org/centos/loncapa/7/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
>
> I modified the conf file manually to point to the right path and it looks
> like it ran fine.
>
> Is there anything else that I need to do?
>
> Bob Gonzales
> Chemistry Dept
> Binghamton University