Here is a sources file! (was: Re: Up2date--fatal error communicating with server) [SOLVED]

[Fred New]

On Fri 10/22/2004 9:51 AM Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote
> On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:13 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>> It doesn't. They've moved the sources file to the fedora-release package
>> (don't ask me why, I just read about these things) and that package in
>> turn won't get rebuilt (with the sources file in it) until likely
>> tomorrow.
> Yes, that was bit tricky.
> I just moved my sources.rpmsave back to sources.  

After updating, I didn't have any remaining /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources*
files.  I had to download up2date-4.3.40-1.i386.rpm from a mirror (also
on the installation FC3T3 CDs) and use rpm2cpio to extract it sources:

rpm2cpio up2date-4.3.40-1.i386.rpm | cpio -id ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources

Fred
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