Yum and FC1

Clint Harshaw clint at penguinsolutions.org
Sun Aug 22 12:29:31 UTC 2004


Mike wrote:
> Good Morning everyone,
> 
> I've decided to try and use YUM. I read up on it a little bit and
> downloaded the yum.conf for fedora from Redhat's website. When I run yum
> check-update, I get the below output saying that the page cannot be
> found. When I plug the URL (at least the first one), It cannot be found.
> if I remove the end of the URL all the way to the /RPMS.stable/
> sections, I get a list of RPMS, but no headers folder. If I change the
> url to reflect /fedora/2/ instead of /fedora/1/, I can see a headers
> folder. Is there another working mirror, or do I need to upgrade to FC2?
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> 
> Mike
> 

The headers for FC1 goodies are located in a slightly different url 
"style" than those for FC2 -- use this yum.conf for starters, and you'll 
see what I mean:

http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf

Hope this helps,
Clint





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