up2date not working, Silly question

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Is this an official change in the way Fedora updates are going to be 
distributed in the future or just a work-around until whoever is 
responsible for posting the updates fixes things and gets the previous 
method working again?  If this is a permanent chance, it seems like this 
is something that should have gotten rolled out with FC5 instead of 
being inflicted on FC4 in the last few days before release (and someone 
needs a several whacks with a clue stick).

Dave Miller

Sun, 05 Jun 2005 23:38:35 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote

>On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:30 -0400, Joel Rittvo wrote:
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>>> Yes, they are populated directories, but pointing up2date to them is not 
>>> working.  Pointing yum to them works fine.  I am trying to get up2date 
>>> working again, although I'm not sure why I bother with it.
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>They lack the old-style headers. Try the following instead:
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>rpmmd extras-fc4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/ extras/4/i386/
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