Do we know what happened?

[Nix, Robert P.]

Running up2date, I still get a 404 on fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info. Should this be fixed at this point, or not?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gene C. [SMTP:czar at czarc.net]
> Sent:	Monday, November 17, 2003 3:01 PM
> To:	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject:	Re: Do we know what happened?
> 
> On Monday 17 November 2003 14:13, Thomas DuVally wrote:
> > I know about the bug and how to fix the problem with the fedora
> > repository, but has there been any official word about what happened?
> >
> > I've looked through the archive over the fast few days and only see the
> > complaints and the fixes.
> >
> > It would be nice to know what and why, especially since I've been trying
> > to generate a little good word.  I don't like having to say, "Oh yeah,
> > great desktop system, but you need to edit these really confusing
> > looking files first."
> 
> I do not work for Red Hat so this is still not an offical response.
> 
> Apparent, someone at Red Hat deleted the redirects on http://fedora.redhat.com 
> (actually, the save systems as http://www.redhat.com so it needs to redirect 
> because of loading).  These redirects are not back in place and you do not 
> need to modify /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.
> 
> However, there is an update to rhn-applet available but you will not see it if 
> you wait for an "updates available" "red-bang" indication.  If you run 
> up2date, it will be seen (along with any other updates not yet applied).  
> Once you get the rhn-applet package update installed, it will follow the 
> redirects and indicate when packages are available [this was just 
> demonstrated to me with the sed update available on update-test].
> -- 
> Gene
> 
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