[installation +updates of packages]pb with YUM

[Paul Howarth]

Daniel Moyne wrote:
> Le lundi 31 Janvier 2005 09:41, Paul Howarth a écrit :
>>On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 20:06 +0100, Daniel Moyne wrote:
>>
>>>thanks to yout info on GRUB configuration I aws able to boot fromm LILO
>>>on to GRUB ans select any of 2 separate kernels ; I stll have to set
>>>resolution and vga=791 as in LILO dos nor work maybe I need hexadecimal
>>>value ? That will be all for today !
>>
>>Just add:
>>vga=791
>>to the end of the "kernel" line(s) in your grub.conf file.
> 
> Paul, it does not work but it is not really important.
> 
>>>I was not able to properly configure GRUB files to have it running well ; 
>>>it is hanging ; "grub-install" works fine but I am not sure it builds 
>>>correctly the files : it just builds from some configuration files you 
> 
> edit 
> 
>>>first ; do you knowx of a GRUB editor allowing choice of kernel to build a 
>>>correct GRUB configuration with all the wished entries ?
>>
>>You could try GrubConf (http://grubconf.sourceforge.net/). I've no idea
>>what it's like and whether it'll do what you want though.
> 
> Apparently nothing to configure Grub !
> 
> I want to load a kernel source ; for the time being using some info from the 
> list my packages sources for YUM are like this :
> [fedora-stable]
> name=Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
> baseurl=http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
>   http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.stable
>   http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/$releasever/2/RPMS.stable
>   http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/$releasever/2/RPMS.stable
> #gpgcheck=1
> 
> [fedora-unstable]
> name=Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
> baseurl=http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
>   http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
>   http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
>   http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
> #gpgcheck=1
> 
> [fedora-testing]
> name=Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
>   http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
>   http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
>   http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
>   http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/$basearch/RPMS.testing
> #gpgcheck=1
> 
> ###############
> ## Livna.org ##
> ###############
> 
> [livna-stable]
> name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
> baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable
>   http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable
> #gpgcheck=1
> 
> [livna-unstable]
> name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
> baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
>   http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.unstable
> #gpgcheck=1
> 
> [livna-testing]
> name=Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
> baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.testing
>   http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing
> #gpgcheck=1
> 
> Would you consider this as good even with "unstable" and "testing" ; I have 
> installed SYNAPTIC and for some packages with only this entry for packages 
> sources :
> http://ayo.freshrpms.net/

As you're a new user of Fedora, I'd suggest not using the testing or 
unstable repositories for now. Otherwise you'll end up with buggy 
packages from time to time. I was also uncomment the gpgcheck lines; 
there really is no reason not to use gpg checks. Importing the right GPG 
keys is something you only have to do once and it's worth the hassle of 
finding the right keys for the security benefits.

As for whether the repos are a good choice, I'll leave that for others 
to comment on as I don't use any of them myself.

> In any case I want synaptic to use the same parameters as YUM but the way they 
> are listed with variables in URL it is not obvious to paste them there !
> 
> To download a kernel source to be installed in "/usr/src" I assume I have to 
> select "kernel-sourcecode" ?

No, there is no kernel-sourcecode RPM in Fedora core. If you want to 
build your own kernel, follow the instructions at: 
http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/

Paul.