F9Beta - no session selector, no updates available

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 15:26:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Chelban Vasile <vchelban at fedoramd.org> wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
>  > How do I learn which mirror I am using? Yum update doesn't display that.
>  > If I look in /etc/yum.repos.d, the only repo that is enabled is
>  > fedora-rawhide.repo, and it has the following lines:
>  >
>  > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/
>  > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
>  > enabled=1
>  Try the following command:
>   GET
>  http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
>  -i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
>
>
>  Since mirrors are rotated in that list - run it twice.
>  The URL you'll get is right unless you
>   - are using yum-fastestmirror plugin
>   - set failovermethod=roundrobin option for that repo
>
Thanks, Chelban.

Still no success.  Results of your suggestion:

[root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# yum update

Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# GET
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
-i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
[root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# yum update

Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# snake-tree info
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
No data source used
Not recognized as a valid tree:
http://mirrors.reflected.net/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
[root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# GET
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
-i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
[root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# snake-tree info
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/development/i386/os
No data source used
Not recognized as a valid tree:
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/ftp/fedora/linux/development/i386/os


I actually tried several different mirrors  with the same result.

Gerry




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