Can I delete *FC3* files from my FC4 system?

[Nat Gross]

On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Nat Gross wrote:
> > On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >
> >>Nat Gross wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 1/25/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >>><snip>
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>Which repos do you have configured? If you do a "yum check-update",
> >>which repositories are listed?
> >
> > 1. updates-released
> > 2. kde-redhat-stable
> > 3. extras
> > 4. base
>
> Your currently-installed redhat-artwork package looks like it came from
> the FC3 kde-redhat-stable repo. What's in the .repo file for that repo?
Here it is:
]# cat kde-redhat.repo
# kde-redhat.repo, v1.0

[kde-redhat-stable]
name=kde-redhat-stable
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/stable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=1

[kde-redhat-stable-all]
name=kde-redhat-stable-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/stable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

# NOTE: enable/disable *both* testing/testing-all together;
requires/depends-on stable
[kde-redhat-testing]
name=kde-redhat-testing
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/testing/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

[kde-redhat-testing-all]
name=kde-redhat-testing-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/testing/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

# NOTE: enable/disable *both* unstable,unstable-all together;
requires/depends-on testing
[kde-redhat-unstable]
name=kde-redhat-unstable
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/unstable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0

[kde-redhat-unstable-all]
name=kde-redhat-unstable-all
mirrorlist=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/all/unstable/mirrors
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/kde-redhat.RPM-GPG-KEY
enabled=0



> > BUT, the catch is that I used to have (and still have them as *.repos.ren):
> > 5. dag
> > 6. dries
> > 7. freshrpms
> > 8. livna
> > I don't recall why I remmed these (5-8) out, but definetly many rpm's
> > were pulled from there.
>
> I'd suggest that instead of renaming the .repo files, you add a line to
> each of them:
>
> enabled=0
> and leave them as .repo files. That will cause yum to ignore them
> normally, but you can enable them for a single command using the
> --enablerepo option of yum.
Good points. tx.
>
> What's in the .repo file for the "dag" repo?
# cat dag.repo.REN
[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

tx again.
-nat