another yum error... (mis-configuration?)

[Elton Woo]

William Hooper wrote:

>Elton Woo said:
>  
>
>>>>Error getting file
>>>>http://fedora.redhat.com/stable/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
>>>>[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Where did this URL come from?  Are you still looking for the Fedora.us
>>>(aka Fedora Extras) repos?
>>>
>>>http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>I dunno. <*shrug*> That is the output that I get when I run
>>"yum install apt", from a root console.
>>    
>>
>
>After you made the changes below?  Notice that I gave you the correct URL
>above.
>  
>
Please bear with me  <G> ... I realize that I might be trying your 
patience. The first
*three* entries in my yum.conf are the defaults, save that I removed the 
REM (#)
from the third one.

>>FWIW: Here's my yum.conf file to which I've added the last two
>>entries:
>>    
>>
>[snip]
>  
>
>>[stable]
>>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Stable
>>baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/stable/fedora-core-$releasever
>>
>>[unstable]
>>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unstable
>>baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/unstable/fedora-core-$releasever
>>    
>>
>
>Quick sanity check, replace $releasever with 1 (since this is Fedora Core
>1), put these URLs into your favorite web browser, and you will see that
>these two don't exist.  To double check, add "/headers/header.info" to the
>end to try to get the header info file.  Still don't exist.
>
I *think* I'm beginning to follow you. And I do agree. These do not show 
when
I use them in mozilla. I get a 404 instead. So, my mistake was simply 
copying the
first line of yum.conf, and just *adding* "stable" and "unstable"?

Also, (sorry) I *ought to have mentioned this before*. I decided to add 
the extra
two entries when I had started to get an error when running yum from the 
root
console. Getting a bit confused now, so (if I may test your patience a 
wee bit
more...) would you kindly give me some "dummied / newibieized" instructions
on what *exactly* I should enter in those two extra entries, and / or if 
there
is something I need to correct in the default (first three) ones?

TIA,

Elton.

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