Advice to swithc to xorg from XFree86-4.3.0-59

[Harry Putnam]

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.