If you upgrade to FC4

[beartooth]

I've just upgraded three machines with working installs -- one each of
FC1, 2,& 3 -- to FC4. Those with 2 & 3 did fine, without a hitch.

The FC1 machine hit a hard snag: it was failing yum update, leaving me
with a raw media version, which among other things couldn't run Pine, my
main app by an order of magnitude. The trouble was on my end, of course;
one of my gurux found it, and a quick & easy fix for it. That will
doubtless be blindingly obvious to the technically ept, but wasn't to me.

Turns out the upgrade from FC1 is different than from FC2 or 3; somewhere
along in there, big (and very good) changes were made in yum -- and maybe
that's the reason.

Anyway, FC2 & 3 changed their configurations automagically when I upgraded
to FC4; but FC4 kept the old yum.conf I had had on FC1, gave me a new
file, named yum.conf.rpmnew, to replace that with -- and didn't tell me
so, or if it did I missed it or failed to understand it.

I had spotted the fact that the old yum.conf was still FC1's (the legacy
one, not the original), and moved it to a new yum.conf.fc1 to get rid of
it; but I didn't know what to replace it with, much less that the
replacement was already there and waiting, until my excellent guru spotted
that.

So I simply went into /etc as root; did "mv  yum.conf.rpmnew  yum.conf";
ran yum update again; and now it worked.

Once I had a current FC4, Pine went back to working like the charm it
is.

-- 
Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist
FC 1&4, YDL 4; Pine 4.63, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; 
Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.01, Firefox 1.0.4, Epiphany 1.0.8
Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.