fun with RPMs

[Michael Klinosky]

I've been trying to fix a repository issue on a F8 machine. I was given
a 'teach you how to fish' version of the process; I made some progress,
but now I'm stumped. The advice was to find the RPM for this release, 
and find the /etc/yum.repos.d file.

I *think* that I found the RPM; on the dvd, in the directory 'Packages' 
is "rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm" - is that the file I need? (For a 
download, it's .../os/Packages.)

I opened it with the archive manager. My problem is that I can't find 
that repos file.

What's the story?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
>  I've been trying to fix a repository issue on a F8 machine. I was
> given
>  a 'teach you how to fish' version of the process; I made some progress,
>  but now I'm stumped. The advice was to find the RPM for this release, 
>  and find the /etc/yum.repos.d file.
>  
>  I *think* that I found the RPM; on the dvd, in the directory 'Packages' 
>  is "rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm" - is that the file I need? (For a 
>  download, it's .../os/Packages.)
>  
>  I opened it with the archive manager. My problem is that I can't find 
>  that repos file.
>  
>  What's the story? 
The repository files are not part of the RPM package. Usually it is part 
of some <foo>-release package where foo is the name of the repository. 
In Fedora, it is in the fedora-release RPM package.

Rahul

[Ed Greshko]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
>  I've been trying to fix a repository issue on a F8 machine. I was
> given
>  a 'teach you how to fish' version of the process; I made some progress,
>  but now I'm stumped. The advice was to find the RPM for this release, 
>  and find the /etc/yum.repos.d file.
>  
>  I *think* that I found the RPM; on the dvd, in the directory 'Packages' 
>  is "rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm" - is that the file I need? (For a 
>  download, it's .../os/Packages.)
>  
>  I opened it with the archive manager. My problem is that I can't find 
>  that repos file.
>  
>  What's the story?
>   
I think it would be helpful if you try to describe the "repository issue" 
you are trying to fix.  At least I don't know what you really mean by "find 
the RPM for this release".

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 21:04:37 -0500,
  Michael Klinosky <mpk2(a)enter.net&gt; wrote:
>  I've been trying to fix a repository issue on a F8 machine. I was
> given
>  a 'teach you how to fish' version of the process; I made some progress,
>  but now I'm stumped. The advice was to find the RPM for this release, 
>  and find the /etc/yum.repos.d file.
>  
>  I *think* that I found the RPM; on the dvd, in the directory 'Packages' 
>  is "rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm" - is that the file I need? (For a 
>  download, it's .../os/Packages.)
>  
>  I opened it with the archive manager. My problem is that I can't find 
>  that repos file.
>  
>  What's the story? 
The repo definition files should be in the release rpm. For example the one
for rawhide is fedora-release-8.90-3.noarch.rpm . These install repo
defition config files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . You can edit those by hand
if you want to point them at local mirrors or the like.