Yummy Ideas

[Paul Howarth]

Malcolm Candlish wrote:
> Thank you Paul Howarth and Kam Leo I used the base usl http:
> //www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub
> /fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> on all files in my /etc/yum.repos.d and get the following re
> sult:-
> 
> [root at malcolm malcolm]# yum install yumex
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> updates
> [1/4]
> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates
> Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: updates

What's in your /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo file?

> I received a letter from Leon & Tim complaining that my mail
> could not be read. This my be due to my using a bigfoot web
> account while my FC5 is being set up. This should be in pla
> in text. I hope that this is readable.

It's perfectly readable, though a quoted-printable encoding would 
probably have been better than base64.

Paul.