[K12OSN] K12LTSP 4.4.0 pre1 AND 4.2.1EL

[John Baillie]

Eric,

I just installed pre1 and tried yum update and got the following:

[root at gabriel yum.repos.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: k12ltsp
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from k12ltsp: [Errno 256] No more mirrors
to try.

Theoretically we will be able yum or apt-get our way to 4.4.0 final
release?

John


On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:58 -0700, Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Jay Pfaffman wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to have everything on sunsite.utk.edu so that all
> > updates get stuff from there?  (I'll admit that my interest is largely
> > selfish, but I'm bummed when I do an update pulling stuff from
> > mesd.k12.or.us when I know that there's a mirror on campus.)
> 
> Generally everything should always be in sync between mesd.k12.or.us and
> sunsite.utk.edu. I sync the mirrors as part of rebuilding the repos.
> 
> 
> 4.2.1EL is current on sunsite.utk.edu.
> 
> I started mirroring 4.4.0, but it takes a *long* time to sync up a whole
> tree from scratch. Something like 1-2 days IIRC.
> 
> 
> Yum is configured to round-robin between mirrors. If you want to 
> use only one specific mirror, here is how to do it:
> 
> 1) You'll find the repository definitions in /etc/yum.repos.d/,
>     k12ltsp.repo for example.
> 
> 2) Within the *.repo file, you'll see a mirrorlist line, such as:
> 
>  	mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-4.2
> 
> 3) stick the URL (http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-4.2)
>     into a browser and it will retrieve the list of mirrors. Such as:
> 
>     http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/4.2.1/
>     http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/k12ltsp/4.2.1/
> 
> 4) copy the URL of the mirror you want to use, comment out the "mirrorlist"
>     line, and add a "baseurl" line. Such as:
> 
> 
>  	[k12ltsp]
>  	name=K12LTSP
>  	# mirrorlist=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-4.4
>  	baseurl=http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/k12ltsp/4.2.1/
>  	gpgkey=http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP-GPG-KEY
>  	enabled=1
>  	gpgcheck=1
> 
> 5) now yum will only query that one specific mirror.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> > On 7/6/05, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Joe Guenther wrote:
> >>
> >>> Will the YUM UPDATE then also work with the EL version of K12LTSP just like it
> >>> does with the Fedora Core versions?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >>> Will this version have its own repository
> >>> of updates?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >>> Will it use CentOS's repositories?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >>
> >>> When I last tried CentOS,
> >>> their repositories were unusably slow.  Maybe that has been fixed.
> >>
> >> The K12LTSP 4.2.1EL repository includes the CentOS base OS & update
> >> repositories. If it is too slow for you, you could always disable
> >> those repos: edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and add "enabled=0"
> >> to any repos you don't want to use.
> >>
> >> They have seemed to be okay to me.
> >>
> >> -Eric
> >>
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> >
> > -- 
> > Jay Pfaffman                           <pfaffman at utk.edu>
> > Asst Professor of Instructional Technology, U. TN, Knoxville
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