How to update in Fedora7

[Kam Leo]

On 6/7/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007, Kam Leo wrote:
> >On 6/7/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> >> On Thursday 07 June 2007, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> >> >Is yum still available in Fedora 7?
> >>
> >> yes, have pirut install it and yumex.
> >>
> >> >Is smart a better method? Are there others?
> >>
> >> yes, I like it better, a lot better for FC6, but so far I've not found a
> >> config file that will run it against the re-arranged F7 repos.  And my
> >> questions/requests for such a lashup have been so far ignored.  The
> >> version shipped for F7 points at the devel branches only, aka rawhide I
> >> guess.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers, Gene
> >
> >Gene, you must of missing my reply to your post in another thread. I'm
> >surprised that it has not made it out of testing. Look in
> >fedora/updates/testing/7/i386 for
> >fedora-package-config-smart-7.8.1.i386.rpm.
>
> Thanks Kam, I have the lappy (the F7 machine) booting right now.  Now if yumex
> could get out of its own way... That thing isn't just slow, its been frozen
> on primarysqlite.bz2 for a good 5 minutes now.  But it quit just as if it was
> alive.  Pirut I don't know how to control, yum hangs if I enable that repo,
> and smart doesn't know about it.
>
> found it with yumex, installed it, but no new updates are showing in smart.
> That seems odd.
>
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/7/i386/fedora-package-config-smart-7-8.1.i386.rpm