Hosed repos

[Mark Haney]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Di, den 26.04.2005 schrieb Mark Haney um 16:28:
> 
> 
>>Mark Haney wrote:
>>
>>>Well I did it.  I did something incredibly stupid and now my repos are all hosed.  Not that I'm a huge fan of Up2date,
>>>but I do like to use the notifier to keep me informed of new updates to the OS.  Now that doesn't want to work.  How do
>>>I recover the stock repos for FC3?
>>
>>As an alternative to editing this file, you could reinstall the
>>fedora-release package.
> 
> 
> Just as a tip for the future:
> 
> cd /var/tmp/
> wget ftp://.../fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm
> rpm2cpio 
> fedora-release-3-8.i386.rpm | cpio -ivd ./etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> mv etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources
> 
> You then have back the original file from the RPM. This works for all
> other RPMs the same way. Before extracting the desired content of the
> RPM, run "cpio -t" to find out whether the RPM contains relative or
> absolute paths - to avoid unwanted override.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> 
That is great.  I will certainly keep this for future reference.  Thanks 
a bunch.


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