On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:29 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 12:01 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:00 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: > > > I knew about yum, but I had never used it until my involvement with FC3 > > > test. I liked it. Joe average doesn't want a textual install/update > > > tool. Put a synaptic type front end on yum and it too would be a > > > winner. > > > > > > Ironically, yum on my machine is now broken <again> because the repos > > > aren't pointing anywhere meaningful. > > > > the repos aren't pointing anywhere meaningful? Where did you get the yum > > package? The yum package (in combination with fedora-release) that comes > > with fc3 has working configuration files. > > Just a side note: yum wouldn't update fedora-release-3-rawhide to > fedora-release-3-8 for me, I had to do this manually. > Right. set exactarch=0 in your yum.conf and it will. fedora-release changed from i386/x86_64 to noarch b/t fc2 and fc3. yum won't let a package change architectures if you have exactarch=1 -sv