Up2date Channels Right?

[David Cartwright]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb David Cartwright um 03:52:
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>>Above pages read and followed I think? Results puzzling.
>>Ran Up2Date from icon using this setup...
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>>yum channel ibiblio-fedora-core-1 from 
>>http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
>>yum channel ibiblio-updates-released from 
>>http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
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>>and got response /everything up-to-date./
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>>Ran yum from terminal with following setup......
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>>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>>baseurl=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
>>baseurl=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
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>>and got several hundred file returns. Why the diff responses and is my 
>>yum setup giving me file returns I shouldn't be getting?
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>Just a guess, but if your up2date source file yum entries look exactly
>how you pasted it in your mail, then it must fail. Yum is certainly
>giving you the proper information about updates available.
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What I pasted above is feedback from Up2date process. I cut and pasted 
to the sources file your article lines exactly as written in your 
article - no changes. I used above lines to explain what I had done 
because I could not open and paste info from sources file while not in 
root....my mail was in a user folder.

>>Thanks for help
>>David
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>See in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources the comment:
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>### an yum style repo
>### format:
>### type  channel-label     url
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>You see that "channel ibiblio-fedora-core-1 from" is a 3 word naming,
>while the channel-label has to be a single word. If you would run
>up2date in CLI mode you would see
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>$ up2date-nox -u
>Error parsing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
>at line: yum channel from chemnitz-fedora-core-1 http://....
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>and up2date failing. So correct your sources file for up2date. [ Please
>keep in mind too, that the ibiblio.org mirror server I took in my
>article is just an example. There might be a better fitting mirror for
>your location. ]
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>Alexander
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Is there a way to limit number of files returned for updating by 
yum....I would like to handle updating for no more than 10-15 at one 
time so I feel in control. BTW, I replaced yum conf file with the large 
one referenced in on-line article. Ran yum check-update and got numerous 
files listed; did nothing else because not sure what will happen if I 
try to yum update with all those files supposedly destined for the 
update queue??? Up2Date still returns zero files and says everything 
up-to-date.

Regards,
David