Yum.conf, Fedoracore2

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:49:06 -0500
David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Bruce Hyatt wrote:
> > I screwed up my yum.conf file and I can't get it back.
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> > I don't remember the whole process, how it happened but right now I am using the file from the link found on the fedorafaq.org page and "yum update" is returning "ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers."
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> > Where can i find a yum.conf file that will work for installing and updating packages?
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> > I'm running fedoracore2 with a 2.6 kernel.
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> 
> Fedora Core 2 was announced EOL (end of life - no more support/updates
> of any kind) on April 11, 2005.
> 
> So are Fedora Core 3, 4, and 5 EOL but on various later dates.
> 
> With the release of Fedora 8 it was announced that Fedora Core 6 will be
> EOL on December 7, 2007.
> 
> Now. If what you are thinking of doing is to try to upgrade from FC2 to
> something much newer, like Fedora 7 or Fedora 8, I would highly
> recommend that you do *not* do that. Too much has changed over this much
> time.

You can live upgrade from 2 to 8 but it would be a good idea to go
through some others first. A straight CD update from 2 to 8 should work
fine.