[K12OSN] broken link in k12ltsp.repo?

Terrell Prude' Jr. microman at cmosnetworks.com
Sat Aug 16 20:26:29 UTC 2008


Peter Scheie wrote:
> I'm trying to install libX11-devel (to test out Robert's new version 
> of fl_teachertool) on k12ltsp-5EL.  One of its dependencies is 
> mesa-libGL-devel which it tries to get from 
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit/5.1/.  However, 
> the k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP path appears to be invalid.  I 
> suspect it is supposed to be k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP, 
> which does exist.  The k12ltsp.repo simply points to the mirrorlist 
> file at 
> http://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/mirrors/k12ltsp-5.0EL-$basearch; in 
> this case, $basearch is i386, and the path that this points to is the 
> incorrect k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/K12LTSP/5.0.0-EL-32bit, incorrect 
> because of the missing /pub/ part.  Dan or Eric, can you look at 
> this?  Or am I misunderstanding something?
>
> Peter 

Hey...I just tried "yum update" with my K12LTSP 4.2EL box.  I get the 
same error message!  Yes, "yum update" and "yum upgrade" both used to 
work on this box.  This issue, therefore, seems to not be specific to 
version 5EL.

Could there be a more general issue at the repository level?

--TP




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