On Sat, 08 May 2004 13:12:55 +0200, Troed Sångberg wrote:Hello Michael,
I must be blind. I've looked all over the Fedora Legacy project page, read (I think, at least) the available documentation on the web, but I have _no idea_ what to do to get my RH9-machine that previously used up2date for security updates, to start using the packages from the Legacy project.
Not enough people preparing the documentation in time.
Please - a step-by-step guide that doesn't ask me to choose between yum/apt-whatever since I, as a stupid RH9 user, have only got a very vague idea on the difference and significance of that choice?
Let me see. My suggestion:
* Run: rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
* Get http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.stable/yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90.noarch.rpm
Install it with "rpm -Uvh yum-2.0.3-0.fdr.1.rh90.noarch.rpm" Or install it directly with "rpm -ivh http://...."; of the network. RPM can do that.
* Install the Fedora Legacy public key for verifying package signatures. rpm --import http://www.fedoralegacy.org/FEDORA-LEGACY-GPG-KEY
* Choose a mirror of Fedora Legacy for Red Hat Linux 9 from the website, e.g. modify /etc/yum.conf in the section that reads
[redhat-updates] name=Red Hat Linux $releasever ($basearch) updates baseurl= http://download.fedora.us/...
to use a different baseurl= such as:
baseurl=http://legacy.linux.duke.edu/redhat/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
* If you don't want any of the Fedora.us add-ons for Red Hat Linux 9, disable the [fedora-stable] entry in the lower half of /etc/yum.conf.
* Then run "yum update" for the first time to fetch package headers. Note there is a "yum" service which can download updates at night.
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I just followered the above procedures you posted and it worked flawlessly.
Thank you for your very informative post.
Best regards,
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