RE: [Non-DoD Source] Re: no /repodata/repomd.xml

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On a Redhat 9 FIPS machine I copy pasted the instructions exactly as they appeared for postgres 16, redhat 9, x86-64

sudo dnf install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-9-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -qy module disable postgresql
sudo dnf install -y postgresql16-server

Upon executing the third instruction I got the 404 error.
The only thing that fixed it was removing the file part of the url in /etc/yum.repos.d/postgres.repo

baseurl = https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/common/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/

believe me or not. It doesn't matter to me.
Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2024 5:23 AM
To: Smith Matthew S NGA-TEID USA CTR <Matthew(dot)S(dot)Smith(dot)ctr(at)nga(dot)mil>; pgsql-pkg-yum(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: no /repodata/repomd.xml

Hi,

On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 22:59 +0000, Matthew(dot)S(dot)Smith(dot)ctr(at)nga(dot)mil wrote:
> I've been wrestling with this for days. I believe that I've fixed it.
> Here's how. Web searches were virtually zero help.

This is not surprising as you created an impossible problem and tried to find a solution for that.

> Your "latest" repo rpm url has no repodata/repomd.xml

Yeah, because it is a repo *RPM*.

>
>
> The URL pointed at by PostgreSQL: Linux downloads (Red Hat family)
> <https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/> does have
> repodata/repomd.xml

I believe you messed up everything badly. Both that site and https://yum.postgresql.org/howto/ has the same instructions:

sudo dnf install -y https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-9-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install postgresql16-server

This is all you need to do. What went wrong on your case?

Regards,
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Devrim Gündüz
Open Source Solution Architect, PostgreSQL Major Contributor
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR
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