yum commands fail with "Config Error: File contains no section headers"

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Issue

Yum commands are failing with the following error :

Config Error: File contains no section headers.
file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/mycustomrepo.repo, line: 1
'mycustomrepo]\n'

What does it mean?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.5 and v.6
  • yum with home made, or 3rd party repositories installed

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