hello legacists, after installing 7.2 from CD, the instructions at http://fedoralegacy.org/docs/yum-rh7x.php do not work: # rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/updates/i386/rpm-4.0.4-7x.i386.rpm Retrieving http://download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/updates/i386/rpm-4.0.4-7x.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: popt = 1.6.4 is needed by rpm-4.0.4-7x rpm = 4.0.3 is needed by rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03 rpm = 4.0.3 is needed by rpm-build-4.0.3-1.03 rpm = 4.0.3 is needed by rpm-devel-4.0.3-1.03 rpm = 4.0.3 is needed by rpm-perl-4.0.3-1.03 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-11 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-8 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-build-4.0.3-1.03 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-perl-4.0.3-1.03 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm2html-1.7-1 librpm-4.0.3.so is needed by rpmfind-1.7-2 librpmbuild-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-8 librpmbuild-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-build-4.0.3-1.03 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-11 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-8 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-build-4.0.3-1.03 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-perl-4.0.3-1.03 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm2html-1.7-1 librpmdb-4.0.3.so is needed by rpmfind-1.7-2 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by gnorpm-0.96-11 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by kdeadmin-2.2-8 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-build-4.0.3-1.03 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm-perl-4.0.3-1.03 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpm2html-1.7-1 librpmio-4.0.3.so is needed by rpmfind-1.7-2 perhaps those instructions are presuming the user has already used RHN, but they do not say so. so here's what i did instead, and what happened: # rsync -vSPa rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/updates/i386/rpm-* /tmp# # rsync -vSPa rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/updates/i386/popt-* /tmp # rsync -vSPa rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/legacy-utils/i386/yum-* /tmp # rpm -Uvh --nodeps /tmp/yum-* /tmp/rpm-* /tmp/popt-* i adjusted my /etc/yum.conf (see below), then # gpg --import /usr/share/doc/yum-1.0.3/*GPG-KEY # gpg --import /usr/share/doc/yum-1.0.3/*GPG-KEY # yum update ... .conflict between kernel-smp and bcm5820 conflict between kernel-debug and bcm5820 conflict between kernel and bcm5820 # rpm -e bcm5820 # yum update ... Getting postgresql-tcl-7.1.3-5.72.i386.rpm Getting php-pgsql-4.1.2-7.2.6.i386.rpm Error: MD5 Signature check failed for /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/php-pgsql-4.1.2-7.2.6.i386.rpm You may want to run yum clean or remove the file: /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/php-pgsql-4.1.2-7.2.6.i386.rpm Exiting. # rsync -vSPa rsync://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/7.2/updates/i386/php-pgsql-4.1.2-7.2.6.i386.rpm /var/cache/yum/updates/packages # yum update yum update finally ran successfully. #my /etc/yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest exactarch=1 exclude= # Added this because some mirrors go down and then retying takes forever. retries=1 [base] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever base baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/os/$basearch gpgcheck=1 [updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever updates baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch gpgcheck=1 [legacy-utils] name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Red Hat Linux $releasever baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedoralegacy.org/redhat/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch gpgcheck=1
