Cups problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 16 02:54:49 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 12:20 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> 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 ~]$
----
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 .

Craig




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