New F11 for the XO-1 Build 7

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Yioryos Asprobounitis <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: New F11 for the XO-1  Build 7
> To: "Fedora OLPC List" <fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com>, "Mikus Grinbergs" <mikus at bga.com>, "Steven M. Parrish" <smparrish at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 2:41 PM
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com>
> > Subject: Re: New F11 for the XO-1  Build 7
> > To: "Fedora OLPC List" <fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 9:58 PM
> > > Also included is a new
> > Fedora-olpc-kernel repo
> > 
> > Running in Terminal.  Unfortunately, that repo entry
> > fails yum parsing (presumably because of the "*"
> character
> > in the repo URL).
> > 
> > Had to disable that whole entry in order to be able to
> run
> > yum.
> > 
> > mikus
> > 
> 
> > Strange this works just fine for me.  Is anyone
> else able to reproduce > this?
> 
> Actually yes.
> here is what I get 
> 
> [root at localhost olpc]# yum update
> Loaded plugins: presto, protectbase
> Options Error: Error parsing 'http://dev.laptop.org/~dilinger/olpc-2.6.30-xo1
> --includepkgs=kernel*': URL must be http, ftp, file or https
> not ""
> 
> Removing the '*' from the URL in
> /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-olpc-kernel.repo results in the same
> message
> 
> 
PS: renaming  /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-olpc-kernel.repo allows yum to work. However now offers to update the Kernel and kernel firmware so I assume the --excludepkgs=kernel* option  does not work jn the fedora .repo files