I have been gradually updating my Fedora servers from a variety of releases ranging to F14 to F18 to more current versions. In order to do these as in-place updates rather than re-installs (which saves many headaches) I have had to do this gradually. Most are now running F19 with one "pioneer" at F20. But one that started at F14 seems to be stuck at F17, since F17 has been archived, and thus I cannot do "yum install fedup" since the links in /etc/yum.fedora.repo are now invalid.
What is the best workaround? I know that once I have fedup installed, I can go to F19 with a minimum of hassle (mostly the apache config file restructuring, but that machine does not run apache anyway). Bu thow do I get there?
- can I find the F17 fedup rpm in archive.fedoraproject.org and just install it manually? - can I update the /etc/yum.fedora.repo file to point to the archived set? (Can you send me a working file?)
Lars Poulsen Afar Communications Inc
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On 12/17/2013 12:05 PM, Lars Poulsen wrote:
I have been gradually updating my Fedora servers from a variety of releases ranging to F14 to F18 to more current versions. In order to do these as in-place updates rather than re-installs (which saves many headaches) I have had to do this gradually. Most are now running F19 with one "pioneer" at F20. But one that started at F14 seems to be stuck at F17, since F17 has been archived, and thus I cannot do "yum install fedup" since the links in /etc/yum.fedora.repo are now invalid.
What is the best workaround? I know that once I have fedup installed, I can go to F19 with a minimum of hassle (mostly the apache config file restructuring, but that machine does not run apache anyway). Bu thow do I get there?
- can I find the F17 fedup rpm in archive.fedoraproject.org and
just install it manually? - can I update the /etc/yum.fedora.repo file to point to the archived set? (Can you send me a working file?)
Lars Poulsen Afar Communications Inc
I just successfully installed fedup on an F17 box from the updates repo, so you may not have a problem.
[updates] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$base... mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f$releaseve... enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
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Lars Poulsen -
Steve Forsythe