Rawhide yum or repos broken?

David dgboles at comcast.net
Sun Apr 19 02:52:20 UTC 2009


On 4/18/2009 9:11 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 08:28:46PM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>> How do I force yum to use the master repo?


> Please format email properly when possible.  (Sometimes, due to mailers,
> handicaps, or other reasons, it's not possible.)

> http://howto-pages.org/posting_style/

> If you look at /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo

> In the section that begins [rawhide]

> You'll see a line that is probably commented out with a # that begins 

> baseurl=http (and the rest of the address.

> Underneath, a line that is NOT commented out will start with

> mirrorlist=https and a long address.

> Comment out the mirror list line and uncomment the baseurl line. 

> Note that you should make an attempt to put it back to the default
> tomorrow, or the next day, as this sort of thing usually gets fixed very
> quickly.


Someone that asks a question that simple while running a rawhide, or
alpha/beta of a coming release install would probably also need an
explaintion of "Comment out" and "uncomment" sir.

-- 


  David




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