Should I disable the old updates repo?

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at ul.ie
Fri Sep 12 14:40:05 UTC 2008


On Friday 12 September 2008 15:06:31 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 09:42 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > >>> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:23 -0500, Brian Millett wrote:
> > >>>> The old fedora-updates.repo ??  After the update hokey-pokey dance,
> > >>>> all is just great, and that's what its all about.  I'm happy.  But I
> > >>>> noticed that the old, bad key, updates is still active.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Should that repo be deactivated?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks team for a job well done.
> > >>>
> > >>> Seems like the thing to do.
> > >>
> > >> On my system, the update replaced the repo file. Look at the date of
> > >> the files in /etc/yum.repos.d
> > >
> > > On mine the old one is still there.
> >
> > Are you sure? Check the time stamp on the files.
>
> Yeah,, I am sure , but I think it was because of the screwey way I
> performed the transisiton. I also have a:  fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew
> which I think corresponds to the new:  fedora-updates.repo
> you are seeing.
>

If you previously edited your fedora.repo or fedora-updates.repo or 
fedora-testing.repo then the update will create a x.rpmnew version of these 
files  rather than replacing them wih the new versions.

Tony



> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  234 2008-05-18 21:42 dvd.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1907 2008-09-08 10:57 fedora-development.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168 2008-09-08 10:57 fedora.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1186 2008-09-08 10:57 fedora-updates-newkey.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1078 2008-09-08 10:57 fedora-updates.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1259 2008-09-08 10:57
> > fedora-updates-testing-newkey.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1151 2008-09-08 10:57 fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1904 2007-11-07 10:11 livna-devel.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1808 2007-11-07 10:11 livna.repo
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2003 2007-11-07 10:11 livna-testing.repo
> >
> > Mikkel
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