Up2date Channels Right?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 03.05.2004 schrieb David Cartwright um 03:52:

> Above pages read and followed I think? Results puzzling.
> Ran Up2Date from icon using this setup...
> 
> yum channel ibiblio-fedora-core-1 from 
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/
> yum channel ibiblio-updates-released from 
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
> 
> and got response /everything up-to-date./
> 
> Ran yum from terminal with following setup......
> 
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> and got several hundred file returns. Why the diff responses and is my 
> yum setup giving me file returns I shouldn't be getting?

Just a guess, but if your up2date source file yum entries look exactly
how you pasted it in your mail, then it must fail. Yum is certainly
giving you the proper information about updates available.

> Thanks for help
> David

See in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources the comment:

### an yum style repo
### format:
### type  channel-label     url

You see that "channel ibiblio-fedora-core-1 from" is a 3 word naming,
while the channel-label has to be a single word. If you would run
up2date in CLI mode you would see

$ up2date-nox -u
Error parsing /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
at line: yum channel from chemnitz-fedora-core-1 http://....

and up2date failing. So correct your sources file for up2date. [ Please
keep in mind too, that the ibiblio.org mirror server I took in my
article is just an example. There might be a better fitting mirror for
your location. ]

Alexander


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