yum repo help needed

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Fri Sep 20 21:39:48 UTC 2013


On 09/20/2013 01:59 PM, Mike Wright issued this missive:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an very old and cranky laptop that won't install past f14, used
> mostly as a scanner/print station.
>
> I'm trying to update some of its software using yum.  I created a repo,
> fedora-archive.repo:
>
> [archive]
> name=Fedora 14 - i386
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/
>
> enabled=1
> metadata_expire=7d
> gpgcheck=1
>
> Given this command:
>
>    yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora-archive.repo update -y

I think that should be "--enablerepo=archive" (name of the archive,
not the name of the repo file).
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