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Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)” error (yum groupinstall “Development Tools”)

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yum repolist all

Gives you a list of all the respositories and its status

#yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: product-id, security, subscription-manager
Not root, certificate-based repositories not updated
vmware-tools | 279 B 00:00 …
packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/5.1/rhel6/…repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for vmware-tools: Damaged repomd.xml file
Trying other mirror.
repo id repo name status
RHEL-Repository RHEL repository disabled
rhel-source Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server-x86_64 Source disabled
vmware-tools VMware Tools enabled
vmware-tools-collection vmware-tools-collection disabled

How to Enable
yum-config-manager –enable repository…

How to Disable
yum-config-manager –disable repository…