[K12OSN] yum not working - repomd.xml missing - K12LTSP-4.2.0-beta4

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:23:17 -0800
Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 17:14 -0500, Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> > I got the following error message when trying to update with yum.
> > Looks like ~/repodata/repomd.xml is missing. 
[snip]
> 
> Is this a box that was upgraded from K12LTSP 4.0 to 4.2?
> 

Yep upgraded from 4.0.1-1

> Repomd.xml is used by yum 2.0, which is only included in
> K12LTSP 4.2. ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/fedora is
> a K12LTSP 4.0 repository.
> 
> It should be:  ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/yum/fc3/
> 
> Off the top of my head, the only way I can think for this
> to happen is if you installed K12LTSP 4.0, customized
> /etc/yum.conf, and then upgraded to K12LTSP 4.2. It this
> is correct, either edit /etc/yum.conf & remove the 
> repositories you don't need (they are now in /etc/yum.repo.d)
> or copy /etc/yum.conf.rpmsave to /etc/yum.conf.
> 

Copied  /etc/yum.conf.conf.rpmnew (there wasn't an .rpmsave file in /etc). Kept getting error messages for j2re and j2re-plugin so I had to --exclude them. After doing this it updated successfully.

The error messages were: 

[root at dempseysden etc]# yum update j2re
Setting up Update Process
[snip]
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: missing dep: /usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so for pkg j2re-plugin
[root at dempseysden etc]#

I created this directory and populated it first with libjavaplugin_oji.so no go. Symlinked to  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so and again no luck.
Anyone else experiencing difficulty with updating java.

Overall, after I figured out the nfs over tcp/ip issue (see earlier post) upgrading worked pretty good and 4.2.0 is much snappier than 4.0.1. Apps like slypheed open much quicker and gnome feels more  responsive than icewm was under 4.0.1. Great  job, Eric. Thanks!

Jesse McDonnell