On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:05:22 +0000 Nicholas Brown <nicbrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As a side issue, I not that the default /etc/yum.conf installed by the > > yum-2.0.1-1mdk.rpm is setup to use redhat repositories. :-) See below. > Perhaps this should be changed to at least use the Mandrake 9.2 > repository as an inital default. > > Cheers, > Nick > Nick, Below is my /etc/yum.conf. AFAICT, "i586" has to be explicitly stated. If I recall, "$base" and "$basearch" resolve to "i386" which isn't right for Mandrake. David [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=mandrake-release ;;Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=10 [base] name=Mandrake Linux $releasever - Base baseurl=ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/$releasever/i 586 [updates] name=Mandrake Linux $releasever - Updates baseurl=ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/updates/$rele asever/i586 [contrib] name=Mandrake Linux $releasever - Contribs baseurl=ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/yum-repository/mandrake/$releasever/c ontrib/i586/ ;; version: ftp://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/daily/2.0/yum-20031205.tar.gz
