Hosed repos
Mark Haney
markh at uptimecomputer.net
Tue Apr 26 20:40:26 UTC 2005
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 26.04.2005 schrieb Mark Haney um 16:28:
>
>
>>Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>>Well I did it. I did something incredibly stupid and now my repos are all hosed. Not that I'm a huge fan of Up2date,
>>>but I do like to use the notifier to keep me informed of new updates to the OS. Now that doesn't want to work. How do
>>>I recover the stock repos for FC3?
>>
>>As an alternative to editing this file, you could reinstall the
>>fedora-release package.
>
>
> Just as a tip for the future:
>
> cd /var/tmp/
> wget ftp://.../fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm
> rpm2cpio
> fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> mv etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>
> You then have back the original file from the RPM. This works for all
> other RPMs the same way. Before extracting the desired content of the
> RPM, run "cpio -t" to find out whether the RPM contains relative or
> absolute paths - to avoid unwanted override.
>
> Alexander
>
>
>
That is great. I will certainly keep this for future reference. Thanks
a bunch.
--
otium cum dignitate
Mark Haney
Network Engineer, Uptime Computer Sales and Service
828-681-8030
markh at uptimecomputer dot net
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