Any advantage to downloading newly released isos if using FC3RC5

[Douglas Furlong]

Douglas Furlong wrote:

> Gregory Gulik wrote:
>
>> Douglas Furlong wrote:
>>
>>> A silly question but... Have you commented the Development branch, 
>>> and uncommented the fedora, and fedora updates section?
>>>
>> Of course not, that's why I was asking.
>> I couldn't figure it out in the yum configuration but in the 
>> rhn/sources I found the lines and changed them as follows:
>>
>> yum fedora-core-3 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/$ARCH/os/
>> yum updates-released-fc3 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/$ARCH/
>>
>> yum-mirror fedora-core-3 
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-3
>> yum-mirror updates-released-fc3 
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc3
>>
>> #yum updates-testing 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$ARCH/ 
>>
>> #yum-mirror updates-testing 
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-testing-fc3
>>
>> #yum development 
>> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$ARCH/ 
>>
>> #yum-mirror development 
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
>>
>>
>> I tried that and it's still not working, probably because the servers 
>> are being hammered right now. 
>
>
> I don't suppose you could not top post it makes things much easier 
> (for me at least).
>
> For me, I downloaded the latest fedora-release rpm and yum rpm from a 
> mirror, rpm -Uvh those, this sets up yum to use mirror lists.
>
> A lot of them are still saying permission denied but with a couple of 
> retries you eventually get a working mirror.
>
> I have done that on two boxes now and it all worked fine.
>
> For future reference yum now uses /etc/yum.repos.d to hold indevidual 
> files for repo's, their fairly simple to understand.
>
> Doug
>
For the lazy, or less educated ;)

http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/yum-2.1.11-3.noarch.rpm

Doug