There was a release (candidate) 8 ? I thought we stopped at rc 5 ? I agree that yum wouldn't upgrade anymore; I had the same problem and didn't have time to stop and find out why. There was a communication problem between the testers and the team in the last week or so prior to releasing. 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. > > Nils > -- > Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 > PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc