Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Now my repos.d is hosed

[david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
NOT-USED
[david at reddwarf ~]$

   david