Am 20.09.2013 22:59, schrieb Mike Wright:
> I have an very old and cranky laptop that won't install past f14, used mostly 
> as a scanner/print station.
> 
> I'm trying to update some of its software using yum.  I created a repo, 
> fedora-archive.repo:
> 
> [archive]
> name=Fedora 14 - i386
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> Given this command:
> 
>   yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora-archive.repo update -y
> 
> fails with:
> 
>   Error getting repository data for fedora-archive.repo, repository not found.
> 
> The baseurl is accessible and does point to a repo

and you did run the command "createrepo" inside the folder?
yum needs the repo-metadata and not only a folder with packages

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