newbie on fedora

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 14.11.2004 schrieb samuel desseaux um 21:08:

> I've just tested the last release of fedora and it's great! It's very 
> wonderful and i 'd like to contribute to the project (i 'm   french and 
> developer ).
> I've just one question : i've a problem with yum.
> 
> Whem i want to do for example "yum update " or "yum install ...", i've 
> the following answer
> 
> Config Error: File contains parsing errors: file:///etc/yum.conf

> I've used this file http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf

What did you do with the *example* yum.conf? How did you download it?
Using Windows and Internet Explorer? You broke it's formatting at least;
see below.

> Something strange or i've forgotten something? I join to this email my 
> "yum.conf"  and  "sources".
> So, if someone could explain what happened, that would be nice.

> samuel

> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch -
> 	  Base

That must be 2 lines. See "man yum.conf".

> 	  baseurl=http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/i386

> [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever -
> 	$basearch - Released Updates

Same here: the newline after "[updates-released]" is missing.

Alexander


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