Updated to FC5 but yumex still stuck on FC4

[Philip Walden]

Eric Tanguy wrote:

>Le mercredi 19 juillet 2006 à 10:49 -0700, Philip Walden a écrit :
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>>I tried this in fedoraforums, but maybe someone here can help.
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>>I updated to FC5 from FC4 using downloaded FC5 iso images. However, when 
>>I tried to update to the latest FC5 packages with yum and/or yumex , I 
>>noted that they were still looking at FC4 repositories.
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>>After doing a 'yum update yum'  (I think that is what I did), yum 
>>started grabbing the right FC5 packages. However even after a 'yum 
>>update yumex', yumex is still stuck looking at the FC4 repositories for 
>>extras, livna, greysector, etc. The core and update repos are pulling 
>>the right FC5 packages!!??!!
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>>Where is yumex getting stuck on FC4?
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>>I have:
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>>yum-2.6.1-0.fc5
>>yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc5
>>fedora-release-5-5
>>livna-release-5-6
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>> > cat /etc/yum.conf
>>[main]
>>cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>>keepcache=0
>>debuglevel=2
>>logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>>pkgpolicy=newest
>>distroverpkg=redhat-release
>>tolerant=1
>>exactarch=1
>>obsoletes=1
>>gpgcheck=1
>>plugins=1
>>metadata_expire=1800
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>># PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
>># in /etc/yum.repos.d
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>> > cat /etc/redhat-release
>>Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
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>> > cat /etc/yumex.conf
>>[yumex]
>>autorefresh = yes
>>filelists = no
>>recentdays = 14
>>autocleanup = yes
>>proxy =
>>exclude =
>>debug = no
>>mirrordetection = default
>>nofastestmirror = 0
>>
>> > cat /etc/yumex.profiles.conf
>>[main]
>>lastprofile = yum-enabled
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>You need to update manually files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to fc5 
>Eric
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But, yum is working fine. Yumex is the problem. Would not yum also be 
stuck on FC4 too, if the yum.repo.d files were out of date?

I looked in yum.repos.d and all the repos in question were properly 
coded with $releasever and $basesearch.

I would hate to hardcode thes files.

Philip