yum/apt/up2date moving locations - one place to look?
Benjamin Arai
benjamin at araisoft.com
Mon Nov 17 16:49:58 UTC 2003
There server(s) for the RPMS/updates was down. This is kind of a bad
first step for Fedora.
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:25, Gene C. wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2003 09:53, Joe Szilagyi wrote:
> > Does anyone know if there will simply be a page on fedora.redhat.com with
> > the correct info, for the official and mirrored locations?
> >
> > Between the volume of messages and questions about this, and the
> > conflicting info, and reports of the Red Hat site being
> > up/down/broken/possessed I'm completely lost.
>
> The situation is only semi-broken. The URLs in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> depend on "redirects". The "real" URLs can be seen on this page:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/updates.html
>
> While this is correct, the URLs as defined by the current up2date and yum
> packages are not correct.
>
> I am hoping that Red Hat:
>
> 1. Reinstalls the redirects on fedora.redhat.com (really www.redhat.com) -- so
> that fresh installs will work properly.
>
> 2. Issues updated packages for up2date and yum which use the actual URLs and
> do not depend on the redirects.
>
> You can manually update /etc/yum.conf and /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources for the
> correct URLs.
>
> There are lots of comments on this situation on the list but it is also a high
> volume list information can be easily missed.
--
Benjamin Arai <benjamin at araisoft.com>
Araisoft Corp.
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