Hi Mary,
You must be the mother of <insert favourite deity/saint> for the patience that you bring
Going with the 'general' section (as this specific error was not listed) I followed the "Yum doesn't seem to be working correctly. What do I do now?" section.
[root@chronias ~]# yum clean metadata
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Cleaning up xml metadata
0 metadata files removed
[root@chronias ~]# yum clean all
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
0 headers removed
0 packages removed
0 metadata files removed
0 cache files removed
0 cache files removed
[root@chronias ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: smeaddons
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: smeaddon
And the problem persists.
My question is should the 'baseurl' listed be browseable by a web browser?
Follwing said document mentioned earlier, I proceeded to the next listed step:
"To flush the up stream proxies, using wget, run:"
[root@chronias ~]# wget --cache=off
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/repodata/filelists.xml.gz--14:44:12--
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/repodata/filelists.xml.gz => `filelists.xml.gz'
Resolving apt.sw.be... 193.1.193.67
Connecting to apt.sw.be|193.1.193.67|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,094,612 (2.0M) [application/x-gzip]
100%[====================================>] 2,094,612 365.23K/s ETA 00:00
14:44:26 (279.59 KB/s) - `filelists.xml.gz' saved [2094612/2094612]
(to save this from being an overly lengthy quote, the wget commands were successful)
wget --cache=off
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/repodata/filelists.xml.gzwget --cache=off
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gzwget --cache=off
http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xmlI then ran the yum update.
[root@chronias ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "protect-packages" plugin
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: smeaddons
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: smeaddon
Also, can you be more specific in the request you state. Saying "Please give a db output for that repository in question" is too generic for me to be able to know exactly what you are asking. Good thing I know how to use a search. The problem with stating it the way you did is that it gave me zero clue about how to do exactly what you wanted. If you has said 'use the show command', THAT is more useful and I can learn how to construct the proper syntax. This is a classic case of someone who knows a product but automatically assuming that another person understands the slang used when dealing with details of said product.
And yes, I have read the article, but I have a LONG way to go before memorizing such things.
[root@chronias ~]# db yum_repositories show smecontribs
smecontribs=repository
EnableGroups=yes
GPGCheck=yes
MirrorList=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver/mirrorlist/smecontribs-7
Name=SME Server - contribs
Visible=no
status=disabled
My SME version is 7.5.1