How to get updates from rawhide for FC6Pre?

[Tim Lauridsen]

Justin Conover wrote:
>
>
> On 10/15/06, *Ernest L. Williams Jr.* <ernesto at ornl.gov 
> <mailto:ernesto at ornl.gov>> wrote:
>
>     On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 09:18 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 10/15/06, Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov
>     <mailto:ernesto at ornl.gov>> wrote:
>     >         On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 08:52 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
>     >         > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 08:37 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr.
>     >         wrote:
>     >         >
>     >         > > pup/yum says there are no updates available for your
>     >         system.
>     >         > >
>     >         > > I have even tried changing to use the baseurl in the
>     >         *.repo file
>     >         > > Still does not work.
>     >         >
>     >         > > My version of yum:
>     >         > > [root at localhost yum.repos.d]# rpm -qa |grep yum
>     >         > > yum-2.9.7-4
>     >         > > yum-updatesd-2.9.7-4
>     >         > > yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6
>     >         >
>     >         > Try this..
>     >         >
>     >         > yum clean all
>     >         > yum update
>     >         >
>     >         > See if that works for you.
>     >         >
>     >
>     >         That did not work:
>     >
>     >         [root at localhost yum.repos.d]# yum clean all
>     >         Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>     >         Cleaning up Everything
>     >         [root at localhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
>     >         Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>     >         Setting up Update Process
>     >         Setting up repositories
>     >         extras-development        100%
>     |=========================| 1.1
>     >         kB
>     >         00:00
>     >         development               100%
>     |=========================| 1.1
>     >         kB
>     >         00:00
>     >         Reading repository metadata in from local files
>     >         primary.xml.gz            100%
>     |=========================| 1.1
>     >         MB
>     >         00:01
>     >         ################################################## 3572/3572
>     >         primary.xml.gz             100%
>     |=========================| 1.1
>     >         MB
>     >         00:01
>     >         ################################################## 3572/3572
>     >         No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
>     >         [root at localhost yum.repos.d]#
>     >
>     >
>     >         Thanks,
>     >         Ernesto
>     >
>     >
>     >         > --
>     >         > Mike Chambers
>     >         > Madisonville, KY
>     >         >
>     >         > "Sex is like air, it's not important unless your not
>     getting
>     >         any!"
>     >         >
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>     > Try going into development.repos and comment out mirror and open up
>     > baseurl.  Followed up by yum clean all && yum update again.
>
>
>     That actually works, thanks. :)
>
>     Hopefully, the same things works for extras, right?
>
>
>     -- Ernesto
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> Give it a shot.  I haven't looked, but the mirrors might be pointing 
> to a mirror that isn't being updated.
there is a bug in the yum in FC6Pre.

update it by running:

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=development update yum
yum clean all

Then yum should be updated to yum-3.0-6 any everythin should work again 
after clearing the yum cache.

Tim
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