yum makes me crazy (bis)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 00:51:17 -0700, Max K-A wrote:

> > > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.stable/headers/header.info
> > > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > > 
> > > ??
> > 
> > The /etc/yum.conf is wrong. Verify the correct http://path with your
> > favourite browser and realize that for FC1 (!) the "headers" directory
> > is elsewhere:
> 
> 	Hey. It's not that the yum.conf is wrong -- there's actually a
> different yum.conf for FC1:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc1/samples/yum.conf
> 
> 	The one up there currently is for FC2.

The path at the top of the quote above _is wrong_. Fedora.us' Yum
repository for FC1 Extras still uses a separate "yum" directory:

  http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/

You cannot turn this into a generic entry with $releasever and get
it to work on FC2, because the directory layout for FC2 extras was
simplied and the yum directory was obsoleted:

  http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.stable