On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 09:00 -0400, Christian Cryder wrote: > Seth, I'm not sure if you saw my email from last night (below). Someone > on the fedora list said I need to revert to yum 2.0.7 (since that's stable). You probably have a copy of yum-2.0.7 or something on your system already in the yum package cache. Try doing locate -r 'yum-.*\.rpm' If that returns an appropriate rpm name then try rpm -Uvh --oldpackage <rpm from above> Alternatively go to your most convenient Fedora mirror, find the yum package rpm - under something line fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/ - download it and put it in place using rpm as above. > Basically I'm seeking more info on how yum works so that I can actually > understand how to troubleshoot problems I encounter (rather than just > mindlessly typing commands) Your big problem here is that you are playing in the uncharted waters of the development set for Fedora - if you do that then things are pretty much guarenteed to break frequently. The real reason for your problem is here... > > #[development] > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree > > baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/ > > development/$basearch/ In the default distributed yum.conf that stanza is commented out entirely. In your config file the first line of the stanza is commented, but the rest of the stanza is intact, so the name/baseurl etc have been attached to the previous yum repository you have enabled. If you do not intend to be running development - with the dangers that entails - then you should completely comment those lines (and probably the stanza above in your config too. If you do want development then uncomment that first line too. In this case you need to stop using the earlier repositories since yum won't handle those in the new version. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
