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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