up2date not working, Silly question

[Joel Rittvo]

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