Change Fedora Releases source

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jul 31 23:58:49 UTC 2012


On 08/01/2012 07:27 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> I have both Beefy on a desktop machine & a laptop. On the desktop
> variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwing
> errors (timing out, 401s, etc).
>
> The laptop was upgraded from 12 -> 15 -> 16 -> 17 using preupgrade as &
> when the new releases became available & the desktop was a clean install
> from a Live CD.
>
> What I'd like to do is check that the laptop is using the same sources
> for Fedora Releases as the desktop & if, as I suspect, it's not, change
> it so as not to encounter these errors.
>
> I've tried Googling on the subject but I'm just seeing results for
> `/etc/yum.repos` which are not the source files with the relevant
> information I'll need so if anyone can point me to the relevant config
> files, I'd appreciate it.

IMO, it is better to copy/paste the errors and show them to people.   This will better enable people comment what is going on.

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