Advice to swithc to xorg from XFree86-4.3.0-59

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:

> Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >
> >> > can you also do the following (and send the info)?
> >> 
> >> > rpm -q fedora-release
> >> 
> >> rpm -q fedora-release
> >> fedora-release-2-rawhide
> >> 
> >> > rpm -V fedora-release
> >> 
> >> rpm -V fedora-release
> >> /etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such
> >> file or directory
> >
> > Ok - this package is fine - and shouldn't cause any grief.  The next
> > thing to check is if yum & python are fine (perhaps upgrade yum to the
> > latest release version).
> >
> > rpm -q yum python
> > rpm -V yum python
> >
> 
> Those check out:
> rpm -q yum python
> yum-2.0.7-3
> python-2.3.3-2
> 
>  rpm -V yum python
> /etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such file or directory
> S.5....T  c /etc/yum.conf
> 
> I'm running latest yum as posted earlier.
> 
> > Also - I'm guessing you are using the yum.conf I've posted earlier
> > (which doesn't use $releasever or $basearch variables) but yum
> > stumbles.
> 
> Correct
> 
> > If yum still doesn't work - I'll sugest using apt to fix things up.
> 
> I've found by backing up to core 2 fedora-release*rpm and editing yum.conf like this:
> 
> cat yum.conf
> [base]
> name=my starter base core 2
> baseurl=ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os
> 
> Now suddenly `yum upgrade' is pulling down the *.hdr files, with no
> error yet.
> 
> I'm wondering if there may be some error in rawhide channel itself.
> I had the rawhide fedora-release installed and aimed yum at fedora
> with your yum.conf,when I started getting that error.

Not sure whats hapenning here. I've installed yum-2.0.7-3 and
fedora-release-2-rawhide with FC2 (python-2.3.3-6) - and yum doesn't
misbehave with the yum.conf I've posted earlier.

You could just change the baseurl to rawhide and try 'yum upgrade'
again.

For this you don't have to change fedora-release package. The only
reason it matters to yum is to do the $releasever substitution in
yum.conf.

Satish