Rawhide updates the past few days are not showing in yum

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 16:22:10 UTC 2007


On 10/24/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:32:07 -0500
> "Gerry Tool" <gerrytool at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > fedora-release-8-2
> > > ------------------
> > > * Fri Oct 19 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> - 8-2
> > > - Disable development, enable release/updates.
> > > ----/----
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > you should take a look at your repofiles in  /etc/yum.repos.d/*
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I did what I think you indicated, and now get this result.
> >
> > [root at f8t3 yum.repos.d]# ls
> > fedora-development.repo    fedora-updates.repo          livna.repo
> > Fedora-install-media.repo  fedora-updates-testing.repo
> > livna-testing.repo fedora.repo
> > livna-devel.repo             macromedia.repo
> >
> > [root at f8t3 yum.repos.d]# yum update
> > Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
> > removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors:
> > //var/cache/yum/updates/mirrorlist.txt
> > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> > repository: updates. Please verify its path and try again
> >
> > [root at f8t3 yum.repos.d]# grep enabled *
> > fedora-development.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-development.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-development.repo:enabled=0
> > Fedora-install-media.repo:enabled = 0
> > fedora.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-updates.repo:enabled=1
> > fedora-updates.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-updates.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-updates-testing.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-updates-testing.repo:enabled=0
> > fedora-updates-testing.repo:enabled=0
> > livna-devel.repo:enabled=0
> > livna-devel.repo:enabled=0
> > livna-devel.repo:enabled=0
> > livna.repo:enabled=0
> > livna.repo:enabled=0
> > livna.repo:enabled=0
> > livna-testing.repo:enabled=0
> > livna-testing.repo:enabled=0
> > livna-testing.repo:enabled=0
> > macromedia.repo:enabled = 0
> >
> > Gerry
>
>
> You two are very confused.  The package itself sets development to
> disabled and fedora / fedora-updates to enabled, as it should for the
> final release.  However until we get there, you should still be using
> the development repo.  So disable fedora, fedora-updates, leave
> development enabled, and away you go.
>
> --
> Jesse Keating
> Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
>

So, I did this and this is the current state.  My packages are not up
to date according to the Build messages.

[root at f8t3 yum.repos.d]# grep enabled=1 *
fedora-development.repo:enabled=1

[root at f8t3 yum.repos.d]# yum update
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

Gerry




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