extras and updates repo files corrupted for FC5

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Mar 24 02:36:44 UTC 2006


Claude Jones wrote:
> I installed yumex and kyum on my machine, Been trying out each, It 
> seems that one of them has messed my extras and updates.repo 
> files; I only have source and debug entries now in each of them. 
> Is there some place I can get the complete files, or can someone 
> send them to me or post them? I'm suspecting kyum because I'd had 
> issues with it rewriting repo files in the past...

You should be able to download fedora-release and reinstall with 
--replacepkgs and --replacefiles arguments to rpm. This should overwrite 
or at least generate rpmnew or rpmsave versions you can rename or 
transfer settings from.

Jim




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