cannot update fedora

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On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:51, Asad Javid wrote:
> i cannot update fedora either through yum or update.
> yum gives the following error.
> 
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info

Something's up with this server.  IIRC technically the right server is
fedora.redhat.com (yes that used to redirect to
download.fedora.redhat.com, but now it is redirecting somewhere else). 
fedora.redhat.com is still working.  One weekend last month there was a
problem with it for about 48 hours and some people were changing their
yum.conf and up2date sources files to point to
download.fedora.redhat.com.

So anyway, to fix this, change your /etc/yum.conf repositories lists
back to the default settings:

---
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
---

And up2date's /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to:

---
yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
yum updates-released
http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
---


These are just snippets, however.  If you want a working list of offical
sources for yum/up2date/apt look at the ones at
http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html .