Re: best way to add fedora directories to yum?

[Tom Poe <tompoe fngi net>]

David Boles wrote:
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> Tom Poe wrote:
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> > Matt Morgan wrote:
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> > > On 1/5/07, Tom Poe <tompoe fngi net> wrote:
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> > > > I managed to panic, click and screw up yum directories.  At this point,
> > > > I think I need to cleanly uninstall, and reinstall yum.  Has anyone done
> > > > this on FC5?  What are the steps?
> > > > Tom
> > > >         
> > > Do you mean you screwed up your repositories, or that you accidentally
> > > deleted files from some directory? What happens when you run
> > >
> > > yum update
> > >
> > > as root?
> > >
> > > Generally you can find very good advice about yum at fedorafaq.org.
> > >
> > >       
> > # yum check-update
> > Setting up repositories
> > planetcore                                                           [1/4]
> > planetcore                100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > livna                                                                [2/4]
> > livna                     100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > planetccrma                                                          [3/4]
> > planetccrma               100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > planetextras                                                         [4/4]
> > planetextras              100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> >
> > It no longer has fedora repositories.
> >     
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> That sounds like an en easy fix. Either download or find and reinstall from
> your FC-5 CD/DVD
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> Fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
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> A link to a fast download site, for me, is http://tinyurl.com/y3tq4l
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> It is a very small package.
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>   David
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David:  Thanks for the reminder that my FC5 CDs are not just for the 
first install.  :)

I tried your suggestion, and  downloaded the rpm and ran:
# rpm -Uvh fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
       package fedora-release-5-5 is already installed

I think I need to find a working directory at /etc/yum.repos.d to 
replace the fedora directories I deleted from that directory and from 
/var/cache/yum
Thanks, Tom