David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud) wrote:
Is this an official change in the way Fedora updates are going to be
distributed in the future or just a work-around until whoever is
responsible for posting the updates fixes things and gets the previous
method working again? If this is a permanent chance, it seems like this
is something that should have gotten rolled out with FC5 instead of
being inflicted on FC4 in the last few days before release (and someone
needs a several whacks with a clue stick).
Dave Miller
Sun, 05 Jun 2005 23:38:35 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 23:30 -0400, Joel Rittvo wrote:
Yes, they are populated directories, but pointing up2date to them is
not working. Pointing yum to them works fine. I am trying to get
up2date working again, although I'm not sure why I bother with it.
They lack the old-style headers. Try the following instead:
rpmmd extras-fc4 http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/
extras/4/i386/
It still isn't working for me. Now it is giving me parsing errors,
telling me I need to register at RHN, and asking for babies so it can
eat them.
Thanks to all for the help, but I think I am going to wait for the FC4
official release and then reinstall the rhn and up2date related
package(s) and grab the release package too. Between those I am sure it
will be all happy. Then I will have a clean slate, and I can edit in
the development repos at that point.
Frankly, I think the recent constant breakage of up2date is a subversive
way to get the last hold-outs like me fully switched over to yum. It
may have finally worked here!
Joel