FC3 Yum & Firefox

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:55 -0500, M.Lewis wrote:
> David Cary Hart wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 21:11 -0500, M.Lewis wrote:
> > 
> >>According to Firefox, I'm running ver 1.0.2. Yet, if I go to 
> >>https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&category=Bookmarks
> >>
> >>it states that I'm not running the current version 1.0.4 and I need to 
> >>upgrade to that version before I can access the extensions. I haven't a 
> >>clue why in the URL above it shows WinBlows.
> >>
> >>If I try yum upgrade firefox, it says there are no updates.
> >>
> >>Am I doing something wrong or have the updates just not made it into the 
> >>yum sites yet?
> > 
> > You are missing the updates released repo. BTW, "upgrade" probably won't
> > be around much longer. Use "update."
> > 
> > [base]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > 
> > [updates-released]
> > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> > mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
> > enabled=1
> > gpgcheck=1
> > 
> 
> Thanks David.
> I added /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-released.repo.
> Then per your suggestion,
> 
> [root at moe yum.repos.d]# yum update firefox
> Repository updates-released already added, not adding again
> Setting up Update Process
> 
> And it downloaded firefox-1.0.4.
> 
> Now the question is, if updates-released was already there, why didn't 
> it work?

It was probably already there but pointing to the wrong place. The most
likely place that the "wrong" one will be is in your /etc/yum.conf. If
you find an [updates-released] repo definition in there, delete it. In
FC3 or later there really shouldn't be any repo definitions
in /etc/yum.conf - they should be in .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d
instead.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>