Updated to FC5 but yumex still stuck on FC4

[Philip Walden]

Philip Walden wrote:

> Eric Tanguy wrote:
>
>> Le mercredi 19 juillet 2006 à 10:49 -0700, Philip Walden a écrit :
>>  
>>
>>> I tried this in fedoraforums, but maybe someone here can help.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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!!??!!
>>>
>>> Where is yumex getting stuck on FC4?
>>>
>>> I have:
>>>
>>> yum-2.6.1-0.fc5
>>> yumex-1.0.2-1.0.fc5
>>> fedora-release-5-5
>>> livna-release-5-6
>>>
>>> > 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
>>>
>>> # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
>>> # in /etc/yum.repos.d
>>>
>>> > cat /etc/redhat-release
>>> Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
>>>
>>> > 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
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> You need to update manually files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ to fc5 Eric
>>
>>  
>>
> 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 stuck on FC4 too, if the yum.repo.d files were out of date?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.
>
Found it: delete /var/cache/yum/yumex-mirror-cache.conf

Philip