F9 Beta install will not update

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at hi.is
Wed Mar 26 17:04:54 UTC 2008


Gerry Tool wrote:
> I installed F9 Beta from the DVD.
>
> Results of 'yum update':
> [root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# yum update
>
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
>
> The only repo enabled in /etc/yum.repos.d 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
>
> At the suggestion of Chelban Vasile, I tried:
> [root at F9Beta yum.repos.d]# GET
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide\&arch=$(uname
> -i)|grep -v ^#|head -n 1
>
> several times to change the mirror, which it did, but  the result of
> 'yum update' is always the same as above.
>
> At the suggestion of Jon Stanley, I installed snake and executed
> snake-tree -info for each of the URLs returned by the GET command,
> always with the result
>
> [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
>
> OK, I'm stumped and would like to get the many updates that I know are
> somewhere.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gerry
>
>   

Unhash the baseurl line in fedora-rawhide.repo

Before changes
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/

after changes
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/ 


Best regards
                 Johann B.
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