Cups problem
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 16 02:04:35 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 18:59 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 11:29 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> > >
> > >> Craig White wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 09:48 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> My repo's are in 'local-updates local-extras local-base,
> > >>>> but yum does updates with no problem
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> ----
> > >>> except of course, that which is a problem. Every problem you have with
> > >>> packaging has to be caused by the below.
> > >>> ----
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
> > >>>> atrpms-bleeding.repo fedora-extras-devel.repo
> > >>>> jpackage-fedora.repo local-extra-devel
> > >>>> atrpms.repo Fedora-install-media.repo
> > >>>> jpackage-generic.repo local-extras
> > >>>> atrpms-stable.repo fedora.repo
> > >>>> jpackage.repo local-updates
> > >>>> atrpms-testing.repo fedora.repo.rpmnew
> > >>>> kde-redhat.repo local-updates-testing
> > >>>> city-fan.org.repo fedora-updates.repo
> > >>>> kde-redhat-stable-all.repo Macromedia
> > >>>> crontab fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew
> > >>>> kde-redhat-stable.repo mirrors-rpmforge
> > >>>> dag.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > >>>> livna-devel.repo newrpms.repo
> > >>>> dries.repo fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew
> > >>>> livna-devel.repo.rpmorig nrpms.repo
> > >>>> fedora-core.repo.rpmnew fedora.us-extras
> > >>>> livna.repo nr.repo
> > >>>> fedora-core.repo.rpmsave freshrpms.repo
> > >>>> livna.repo.rpmorig rpmforge.repo
> > >>>> fedora-development.repo freshrpms.repo.rpmnew
> > >>>> livna.repo.rpmsave yjl.repo
> > >>>> fedora-devel.repo gstreamer-deps.repo
> > >>>> livna-testing.repo
> > >>>> fedora-extra-devel.repo gstreamer.repo local-base
> > >>>> fedora-extra.repo home.repo local-devel
> > >>>>
> > >>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ I know it needs a big clean up.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>> ----
> > >>> were you expecting things to just clear up by themselves while you make
> > >>> a complete nightmare of things?
> > >>>
> > >>> Craig
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> No I not expecting things happen automatically but I dont have the
> > >> confidence
> > >> to hack into files and make the mess worse than it already is.
> > >>
> > > ----
> > > OK, try this...(you need root so simply 'su -')
> > >
> > > this is supplied so you could simply paste this all after you su to root
> > > per above
> > >
> > > cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> > > mkdir NOT-USED
> > > mv * NOT-USED # clear out all repos for the moment
> > > mv NOT-USED/fedora-development.repo.rpmsave fedora-development.repo
> > > mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave
> > > fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > > mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates.repo.rpmsave fedora-updates.repo
> > > mv NOT-USED/fedora.repo.rpmsave fedora.repo
> > >
> > > mv NOT-USED/livna.repo.rpmsave livna.repo
> > > mv NOT-USED/livna-testing.repo .
> > > mv NOT-USED/livna-devel.repo .
> > >
> > > # at this point, you should be able to yum update without much issue and
> > > I am presuming that the latest installs of fedora-release and
> > > livna-release put their repo files rpmsave because the originals were
> > > tainted.
> > >
> > > The rest of the repos you can add by mv the files back but only do 1 or
> > > 2 at a time so you will see if any have problems.
> > >
> > > Myself, I would probably move the rpmforge.repo back but it might be an
> > > issue depending upon how old it is. Possibly kde-redhat stuff (may be
> > > old), maybe jpackage...again, it could be old and broken
> > >
> > > Craig
> > >
> > >
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# cd
> > [root at reddwarf ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mkdir NOT-USED
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv * NOT-USED # clear out all repos for the
> > moment
> > mv: cannot move `NOT-USED' to a subdirectory of itself, `NOT-USED/NOT-USED'
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora-development.repo.rpmsave
> > fedora-development.repo
> > mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/fedora-development.repo.rpmsave': No such file
> > or directory
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave
> > mv: missing destination file operand after
> > `NOT-USED/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave'
> > Try `mv --help' for more information.
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > -bash: fedora-updates-testing.repo: command not found
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates.repo.rpmsave
> > fedora-updates.repo
> > mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/fedora-updates.repo.rpmsave': No such file or
> > directory
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora.repo.rpmsave fedora.repo
> > mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/fedora.repo.rpmsave': No such file or directory
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]#
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/livna.repo.rpmsave livna.repo
> > mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/livna.repo.rpmsave': No such file or directory
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/livna-testing.repo .
> > mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/livna-testing.repo': No such file or directory
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/livna-devel.repo .
> > mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/livna-devel.repo': No such file or directory
> > [root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]#
> ----
> that was intended for BEFORE you decided to move things around
>
> See my other e-mail
----
you could move all of the repo files into the NOT-USED subdirectory and
run the commands again and that should work
Craig
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