Yum.conf, Fedoracore2

[Bruce Hyatt]

I screwed up my yum.conf file and I can't get it back.

I don't remember the whole process, how it happened but right now I am using the file
from the link found on the fedorafaq.org page and "yum update" is returning
"ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers."

Where can i find a yum.conf file that will work for installing and updating packages?

I'm running fedoracore2 with a 2.6 kernel.

Thanks,
Bruce

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[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:49:06 -0500
David Boles <dgboles(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

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>  Bruce Hyatt wrote:
>  > I screwed up my yum.conf file and I can't get it back.
>  >
>  > I don't remember the whole process, how it happened but right now I am using the
> file from the link found on the fedorafaq.org page and "yum update" is returning
> "ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers."
>  >
>  > Where can i find a yum.conf file that will work for installing and updating
> packages?
>  >
>  > I'm running fedoracore2 with a 2.6 kernel.
>  
>  
>  Fedora Core 2 was announced EOL (end of life - no more support/updates
>  of any kind) on April 11, 2005.
>  
>  So are Fedora Core 3, 4, and 5 EOL but on various later dates.
>  
>  With the release of Fedora 8 it was announced that Fedora Core 6 will be
>  EOL on December 7, 2007.
>  
>  Now. If what you are thinking of doing is to try to upgrade from FC2 to
>  something much newer, like Fedora 7 or Fedora 8, I would highly
>  recommend that you do *not* do that. Too much has changed over this much
>  time. 
You can live upgrade from 2 to 8 but it would be a good idea to go
through some others first. A straight CD update from 2 to 8 should work
fine.

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 01 December 2007 20:05, Bruce Hyatt wrote:
>  I screwed up my yum.conf file and I can't get it back.
>
>  I don't remember the whole process, how it happened but right now I am
>  using the file from the link found on the fedorafaq.org page and "yum
>  update" is returning "ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains
>  no section headers."
>
>  Where can i find a yum.conf file that will work for installing and updating
>  packages?
>
>  I'm running fedoracore2 with a 2.6 kernel.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Bruce 
I'm still using FC2 on one of my 2 machines. FC2 is no longer supported. There 
was support from fedora legacy, but that has been ditched now. I  use Apt, 
but I do have an /etc/yum.conf, see below.

# $Id: yum-fd.conf 1563 2004-07-15 21:11:23Z dude $

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[core]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
gpgcheck=1

[updates]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
gpgcheck=1

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/fresh...
gpgcheck=1

#[tupdates]
#name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - testing updates
#baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/tupdates

You're not going to get anything from the updates, but may get the core 
packages.

The above stuff doesn't give much, but as I've said I use Apt, which I got 
from planetccrma, and have added  a few packages recently for FC2 from 
planetccrma.

If you want to install Apt from planetccrma, the link is below, and as I say 
I'm still able to get new packages, but no updates are available. Firefox, 
Opera, and some music apps are no problem, as I upgrade them from downloads 
(rpms's, or tarballs) from their respective sites.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

All the best.

Nigel.

[David]

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Bruce Hyatt wrote:
>  I screwed up my yum.conf file and I can't get it back.
>
>  I don't remember the whole process, how it happened but right now I am using the file
> from the link found on the fedorafaq.org page and "yum update" is returning
> "ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers."
>
>  Where can i find a yum.conf file that will work for installing and updating packages?
>
>  I'm running fedoracore2 with a 2.6 kernel. 

Fedora Core 2 was announced EOL (end of life - no more support/updates
of any kind) on April 11, 2005.

So are Fedora Core 3, 4, and 5 EOL but on various later dates.

With the release of Fedora 8 it was announced that Fedora Core 6 will be
EOL on December 7, 2007.

Now. If what you are thinking of doing is to try to upgrade from FC2 to
something much newer, like Fedora 7 or Fedora 8, I would highly
recommend that you do *not* do that. Too much has changed over this much
time.
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  David

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[Chris Jones]

Bruce Hyatt wrote:
>  I screwed up my yum.conf file and I can't get it back.
>  
>  I don't remember the whole process, how it happened but right now I am using the file
> from the link found on the fedorafaq.org page and "yum update" is returning
> "ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers."
>  
>  Where can i find a yum.conf file that will work for installing and updating packages?
To be honest, I would be surprised if there were any updates available 
for FC2 any more at all. Third party perhaps but certainly no new 
security updates from fedora itself. FC2 is pretty out of date now.

Chris