up2date not working

Joel Rittvo joelonlinux at optonline.net
Mon Jun 6 03:30:41 UTC 2005


Sean Earp wrote:
> 
> On Jun 5, 2005, at 8:12 PM, Joel Rittvo wrote:
> 
>>> 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/
>>>
>>
>> OK, I am lost here.  Help me, please . . .
>>
>> This is some of what is in my /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file:
>>
>> ### EXTRAS FC4
>> yum extras-fc4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/ 
>> extras/4/i386/
>>
>> ### DEVELOPMENT
>> yum development http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/ 
>> core/development/i386/
>>
>> ### EXTRAS DEVELOPMENT
>> yum extras-development http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/ 
>> linux/extras/development/i386/
>>
>>
>> How do I need to change these lines to in order for them to work  
>> again?   I just tried, for example:
>>
>> dir extras-fc4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/ 
>> extras/4/i386/
>>
>> and it does not work at all for me.  That threw out a more serious  
>> error message than a 404 Not Found.
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> 
> I just clicked on each of the links in the above email, and they all  
> work just fine for me, and show up as fully populated directories...
> 
> -Sean
> 

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.

Joel




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