Update error XO-1 883

[David Leeming]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:40 PM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> Trying to install x11vnc on an XO-1 build 883
>
> ...
> olpc-f14/primary
> http://rpmdropbox.laptop.org/f14/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1]
> Metadata file does not match checksum
> Trying other mirror
> ...
> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from olpc-f14: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try
>
> I tried yum clean all, reinstalling and trying again, checking date is
> correct, checking Internet connection is OK, nothing works - but I did
this
> successfully on another XO yesterday.

>> You need to use the baseurl directive in the yum repo config file not
>> a mirror one as it's not mirroed. Peter


Thanks, if you please can advise how do I do that, and comment why it worked
previously (several times up to now I have done this successfully) ...
David