up2date not working

[Elton Woo]

Hardy Merrill wrote:

>I've read some of the previous posts on this subject, but haven't found
>the answer to my problem.  up2date was working right out of the box on
>FC1, but I ran rhn_register thinking that I could use RHN to manage this
>machine.  That didn't work and on the web I found a message saying that
>FC1 is not supported in RHN, so now I've removed this system profile
>from RHN, and now when I run up2date I get a message telling me to run
>rhn_register.
>
You should just ignore that message anc continue. I guess you haven't 
read the Fedora Core release notes? Up2date now uses yum by default, so 
you can even run "up2date yum" from
a root console.

>I've tried changing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources according to a related
>message I found on the internet:
>
>yum fedora-core-1
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
>yum updates-released
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
>#yum updates-testing
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/
>
... it might be one of the threads in which I was just recently 
participating. I now have
my yum.conf amended as shown.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates/

[updates-testing]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever
baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing/
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Also this thread should be of help: "Re: up2date not automatic"
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg04877.html

HTH,

Elton ;-)

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