Re: Fedora Core 4 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 17:55 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 22:30 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> >>> There is something I have forgotten or maybe I never really knew. How
> >>> does the transfer of FC4 to the Legacy Project affect the ability to do
> >>> a yum install or yum upgrade?
> >> I cannot confirm how it got there, but in my /etc/yum.repos.d directory I have 
> >> a fedora-legacy.repo file which contains
> >>
> >> [legacy-updates]
> >> name=Fedora Legacy $releasever - $basearch - Updates
> >> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/legacy-updates-released-fc$releasever
> >> enabled=0
> >> gpgcheck=1
> >> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-legacy
> >>
> >> [legacy-testing]
> >> name=Fedora Legacy $releasever - $basearch - Updates Testing
> >> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/legacy-updates-testing-fc$releasever
> >> enabled=0
> >> gpgcheck=1
> >> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-legacy
> >>
> >> Is this what is needed to activate "legacy" support. 
> >>
> >> I must say my box is FC5 so I haven't worried about it too much.. I have the 
> >> normal repos online and these legacy repos disabled.
> >>
> >> cheers Chris
> >>
> > Look, I can't get any any answer from the fedora-legacy-list on this so
> > I guess I am invisible. The legacy-updates-testing-fc$releasever for FC4
> > does not exist and the one for FC5 exists bit is empty. So how does one
> > get legacy updates?
> > 
> > 
> 
> It looks like there are i386 updates at the below link. There is a 
> mirror list for ftp  and http methods.
> 
> ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/fedoralegacy/fedora/4/updates/i386
> 
> Jim
>  
That is intersting except when you go to that site it wants you to
logon. When I say I want togin anonomously I get back a message that
content can not be displayed.

Am I the only one that is driven to distraction by the fac that the
fedora legacy 
repositories just don't exist or don't work.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>