update from f11 preview

[John Summerfield]

stan wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:18:41 -0700
> David L <idht4n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have an f11 preview system on which I'm
>> trying to yum install pptp and I'm running into
>> various errors.  I seem to recall that there is
>> a time window after which updating a preview
>> system no longer updates to f11 but instead
>> stays on rawhide.  I want to update to f11 and
>> install a few packages without updating
>> everything because I have a 5G monthly
>> quota on my Verizon wireless connection.
>> What is the right way to update from f11
>> preview to f11 at this point?
>>
>> I've tried editing the yum.repos.d files
>> to enable fedora and disable rawhide
>> and changing $releasever to 11, but
>> now I'm getting this error:
>>
>> GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 2]
>> No such file or directory: '/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386'>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>           David
>>
> Hi,
> Try going to one of the mirrors on this list
> 
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/
> 
> and downloading the release package for F11
> 
> fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> It contains the keys and the repositories for F11.
> 
> rpm -ivh fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
> 
> as root will install the f11 keys and repositories, which should fix
> your gpg problems. Then, go into your /etc/yum.repos.d
> directory and disable all of the other repositories except the new ones.



I'm in a similar position, but starting from F10. I'm just about ready 
to ditch Fedora altogether on the system in question (RHEL-clone 5.4 
beckons), but thought I'd do a Q&D upgrade before doing so, to see what 
I can see.

I tried installing the fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm expecting that a 
following "yum upgrade" would do the trick.

It didn't, it downloaded F10 updates, which I allowed.

This is next day, and at present I get "Error: cannot retrieve 
repository metadata (repomnd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify 
its path and try again."


This the request, taken from my Squid log:
1246849843.532    628 192.168.9.142 TCP_MISS/400 1425 GET 
https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-11&arch=x86_64 - 
DIRECT/6
6.35.62.166 text/html
Host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: urlgrabber/3.0.0 yum/3.2.23

HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request
Server: squid/2.5.STABLE14
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:10:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 1137
Expires: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:10:43 GMT
X-Squid-Error: ERR_UNSUP_REQ 0


I wonder whether the change to https is causing my grief?

Any ideas to progress?


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