up2date error

[Timothy S. Mori]

I was just reading about this because I'm going the opposite way and trying
to figure out how to use Yum.

<snip.. taken from the Fedora wiki>

In Fedora Core 1, up2date has the ability to use yum and apt repository. So
if you want to use up2date, edit /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources (as root) and
add :

yum fedora-us-stable-fc1
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
yum fedora-us-testing-fc1
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing
yum fedora-us-unstable-fc1
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/unstable

Hope this is what you were looking for. If you have other users doing
updates, you might want to just use the stable link and leave out the
testing/unstable links.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Tim Spaulding
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:43 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: up2date error

Hi,

Long time listener, first-time poster...

I'm running Fedora Core 1.  I upgraded from Red Hat Linux 9 using the GUI
anaconda installer on
the ISO CDs and I checked the media before installing.  When I upgraded, I
actually selected the
Upgrade option instead of doing a fresh install.  Everything is working
pretty well.  I was
mightly impressed that it stepped around my alsa drivers and sound config
successfully.  I still
have sound.  (I'm running a ThinkPad 600E so it's some work to get
everything working properly. 
And I know that it was my config that's making sound work because I have
another 600 that I did a
fresh install on and sound doesn't work yet.)

Anyway, when I run up2date in the GUI mode, it freezes when attempting to
get the header.info
file.  I have worked around the redirect issues and tested the URLs I'm
using with a browser, so I
know that wasn't the issue.  When I run it in text mode, I get the following
error:

Fetching
http://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/1/i386/os/headers/header.info...
There was some sort of I/O error: <urlopen error (-2, 'Name or service not
known')>

I have successfully updated the system using yum, but I would like to get
up2date working.  More
importantly, I support a number of users who use Red Hat Linux 9 that I plan
on upgrading to
Fedora, but I'm concerned that they will not be able to use up2date.
(Typical end users that
don't know a command prompt from a hole in the ground.)  I'd be happy to
help debug the situation.

Let me know if anyone has any insight into this problem.

Thanks,

tims

<butt-kissing> PS - Hey, Fedora team, good work!  Despite a few glitches
which I believe will be
ironed out through the community process, Fedora Core 1 is pretty solid.
I'm also excited about
getting things like alsa and kernel updates sooner rather than later.  I'm
definitely routing for
you.  Keep it up! </butt-kissing>

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree


--
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list at redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list