[K12OSN] Broken updates for K12LTSP ...!!!!

[John Lucas]

Arturo Limón wrote:
> I have just installed a K12LTSP server. I have other 8 similar 
> installations running in schools.
> 
> Trying to update my just installed system, I run into a suprise. Yum 
> tells me it cannot 
> find http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/5.2/....   
> <http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/5.3/>  what is 
> true, because going into its web page, now it has changed to 
> 5.3: http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/5.3/.... 
> <http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/5.3/>
> 
> This is my yum output:
> 
> [root at linux yum.repos.d]# yum update
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> k12ltsp                   100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
> 00:00    
> addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B    
> 00:00    
> webmin                    100% |=========================|  951 B    
> 00:00    
> macromedia                100% |=========================| 1.9 kB    
> 00:00    
> updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B    
> 00:00    
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
> 00:00    
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    
> 00:00    
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> http://mirror.silyus.net/centos/5.3/updates/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: 
> [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
> Trying other mirror.
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  69 kB    
> 00:00    
> updates   : ################################################## 83/83
> Added 42 new packages, deleted 0 old in 0.77 seconds
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for chkconfig to pack into transaction set.
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/5.2/chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2.i386.rpm: 
> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> Trying other mirror.
> Error: failure: 5.2/chkconfig-1.3.30.1-2.i386.rpm from k12ltsp: [Errno 
> 256] No more mirrors to try.
> 
> What do I have todo to make yum work with 5.3 and not with 5.2?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Arturo Limon
> 

Before performing a general update, update yum first:

	yum update yum

That helped me last week with a similar problem, but this was before the 
release of CentOS v5.3.


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