Package installation fails on Openvz 7 node Solusvm

Applicable to:

• SolusVM

Symptoms 

Unable to install any package on SolusVM OpenVZ 7 node with yum. The following error is displayed:

CONFIG_TEXT: failure: repodata/repomd.xml from virtuozzolinux-openvz-factory: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try
http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vzlinux/7/x86_64/factory/repodata/repomd.xml [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found

Cause

virtuozzolinux-openvz-factory repository is unavailable. 

Resolution

1. Connect to OpenVZ 7 server via SSH

2. Install yum-utils:

   # rpm -ivh http://repo.virtuozzo.com/vzlinux/7/x86_64/os/Packages/y/yum-utils-1.1.31-54.vl7.noarch.rpm

3. Add the yum option to skip the repository if it is unavailable:

   # yum-config-manager --save --setopt=virtuozzolinux-openvz-factory.skip_if_unavailable=true