up2date not working, Silly question
Joel Rittvo
joelonlinux at optonline.net
Mon Jun 6 04:28:30 UTC 2005
David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote:
> Is this an official change in the way Fedora updates are going to be
> distributed in the future or just a work-around until whoever is
> responsible for posting the updates fixes things and gets the previous
> method working again? If this is a permanent chance, it seems like this
> is something that should have gotten rolled out with FC5 instead of
> being inflicted on FC4 in the last few days before release (and someone
> needs a several whacks with a clue stick).
>
> Dave Miller
>
> Sun, 05 Jun 2005 23:38:35 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote
>
>> On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:30 -0400, Joel Rittvo wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Yes, they are populated directories, but pointing up2date to them is
>>>> not working. Pointing yum to them works fine. I am trying to get
>>>> up2date working again, although I'm not sure why I bother with it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> They lack the old-style headers. Try the following instead:
>>
>> rpmmd extras-fc4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/
>> extras/4/i386/
>>
>>
>>
>
It still isn't working for me. Now it is giving me parsing errors,
telling me I need to register at RHN, and asking for babies so it can
eat them.
Thanks to all for the help, but I think I am going to wait for the FC4
official release and then reinstall the rhn and up2date related
package(s) and grab the release package too. Between those I am sure it
will be all happy. Then I will have a clean slate, and I can edit in
the development repos at that point.
Frankly, I think the recent constant breakage of up2date is a subversive
way to get the last hold-outs like me fully switched over to yum. It
may have finally worked here!
Joel
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