up2date not working

[Jim Cornette]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 23:00 -0700, Ian Puleston wrote:
> 
>>Sorry, screwed up the subject line. up2date NOT working
>>
>>On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 22:57 -0700, Ian Puleston wrote:
> 
> 
>>>An HTTP error occurred:
>>>URL:
>>>http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/development/i386//headers/header.info
>>>Status Code: 404
>>>Error Message: Not Found
>>>
>>>
>>>Looking at that server, there is no headers directory under i386. Does
>>>some configuration need changing somewhere?
> 
> 
> Yep, noticed that too, as of a couple days ago.  It seems the headers
> aren't there.  You *can* still use at least up2date if you add a line
> that uses the dir structure and goes straight to the RPM dir instead of
> using the headers.  Takes just a tad longer for it to compare what is
> new or not.
> 
> dir Rawhide /path/to/rawhide/RPMS/
> 

I noticed most repos that are newer are using the repodata vs.the header 
directory strategy. Since the rhn-applet started informing that it could 
not connect to a host of repos, third party and fedora core mirrors, I 
taylored the mirror listing to other sites with similar results.

rhn-applet and up2date-gnome probably need revised to use repodata. 
Up2date worked fine when using older fc3 mirror listings from an earier 
/etc/sysconfig/source file.

Jim



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