Yum install anomaly and yum config question
linux r
linuxr at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 00:30:29 UTC 2004
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:24:15 -0600, Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I did a fresh anaconda install of FC3 and an anaconda update of FC2 ->
> FC3. The fresh install installed the after-install updates properly
> using 'yum update'.
>
> The updated FC2 -> FC3 did nothing when I executed 'yum update'. I
> discovered that the update install left me with the FC2 yum.conf in
> place, so I copied the one from the fresh install and 'yum update' then
> worked just fine. I would have expected the yum.conf to be replaced
> with one that would work with the updated FC3 during the anaconda install.
>
> Question: How can I add .repo files to /etc/yum.repo.d to access the
> livna and Fedora US repositories with the new yum? I tried copying a
> section of the FC2 yum.conf file into a file and placing it in the
> directory, but it failed with
>
> Trying other mirror.
> Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora-stable
> failure: repodata/repomd.xml from fedora-stable: [Errno 256] No more
> mirrors to try.
>
> There is probably a document somewhere that I don't know about telling
> how to do this.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gerry Tool
>
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Have you tried the one at
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#yumconf
I heard this was good. I still had some problems with FC1 with it
but I think that was b/c it was more up to date than the OS version.
At least it gives you a lot of choices to play with. Haven't tried it
with 3 so I can't comment.
HTH
Marc
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