No, I want up2date to do it.......Re: Fedora RC to real Fedora upgrade
Shawn Houston
mhouston at gci.net
Thu Nov 6 23:52:33 UTC 2003
I was forced to delete _everything_ under /var/spool/up2date to fix this
issue. The partial deletes mentioned in earlier posts did not help me.
Now up2date is behaving _very_ well.
-Shawn
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:39, Andy Choens wrote:
> Ok, I would like to update all of my packages to the latest Yarrow
> Release. I've been using Severn since .94 and have loved it. My
> computer thinks it is a Yarrow release, although it is missing a few
> final pieces. But, whenever I run up2date to get them, I get the
> following error.
>
> Error while retrieving package desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-18.
> The message was:
>
> An HTTP error occurred:
> URL:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/s390x/Fedora/RPMS/desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-18.noarch.rpm
> Status Code: 404
> Error Message: Not Found
>
> Of course, the careful eye will notice that there is no such thing as
> ...os/s390x/.... It should read .../os/Fedora/....
>
>
> I could just manually download the files by hand, there are only 5,
> and rpm -Uvh, but I'm a perfectionist and I want up2date to work. So,
> I downloaded from FTP the latest up2date, thinking that might help.
> No dice, same error. I then checked my up2date config files to make
> sure I was going to the right place.
>
> so, from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
>
> yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
> yum updates-released
> http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
>
> which, as I understand it, should take me to the right place. So,
> what am I doing wrong? There is no directory s390x, how can I route
> around it?
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 08:35, snookertb wrote:
> > Why not just do an update from the released disks?
> >
> > tb
> >
> > Philip Balister wrote:
> >
> > >I have a laptop with Fedora installed from the Severndisks and I kept it
> > >updated. WHat is the best way to make certain it has the "official" release on it:
> > >
> > >1) Reinstall from CD
> > >2) Make up2date work again (it's wigged out again)
> > >3) Something else
> > >
> > >I know this has been touched on here, but the answer seems to have been lost.
> > >
> > >Philip
> > >
> > >
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