Firefox 3.5 final?

Kevin Martin kevintm at ameritech.net
Tue Jul 7 13:21:46 UTC 2009




Andre Robatino wrote:
> On 07/03/2009 12:50 PM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> > Andre Robatino wrote:
> >> On 07/03/2009 10:26 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> >>> Has it been released yet to the Fedora yum non-beta repositories?  yum
> >>> list | grep firefox still only shows the beta when I run it here.
> >> I installed it over a day ago.  Try "yum clean metadata" and "yum
> >> update" repeatedly until you get a fresh mirror.
> >>
> > Ah yes, I'm getting the old  "Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for
> > repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again" after a "yum
> > clean metadata" and then a yum list.  I've tried about a dozen
> > iterations of the fedora.repo file with no luck.  Can you cut and paste
> > your yum.repos.d/fedora.repo file here please?
>
> Sorry about that, here it is just once:
>
> [andre at compaq-pc yum.repos.d]$ cat fedora.repo
> [fedora]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
> failovermethod=priority
> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
>
> [fedora-debuginfo]
> name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
> failovermethod=priority
> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=0
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
>
> [fedora-source]
> name=Fedora $releasever - Source
> failovermethod=priority
> #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
> mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
> enabled=0
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
> [andre at compaq-pc yum.repos.d]$
>
>
>

Ah, that did it.  I was not only able to download the Fedora release of
FireFox (which is nice and stable, thank you!) but had 118 updates that
needed to be applied!  Amazing what can happen when you have the .repo
files correct.

Thanks

Kevin




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