Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:47 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 09:48 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> My repo's are in 'local-updates local-extras local-base,
>>>> but yum does updates with no problem
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> except of course, that which is a problem. Every problem you have with
>>> packaging has to be caused by the below.
>>> ----
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ ls /etc/yum.repos.d/
>>>> atrpms-bleeding.repo      fedora-extras-devel.repo            
>>>> jpackage-fedora.repo        local-extra-devel
>>>> atrpms.repo               Fedora-install-media.repo           
>>>> jpackage-generic.repo       local-extras
>>>> atrpms-stable.repo        fedora.repo                         
>>>> jpackage.repo               local-updates
>>>> atrpms-testing.repo       fedora.repo.rpmnew                  
>>>> kde-redhat.repo             local-updates-testing
>>>> city-fan.org.repo         fedora-updates.repo                 
>>>> kde-redhat-stable-all.repo  Macromedia
>>>> crontab                   fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew          
>>>> kde-redhat-stable.repo      mirrors-rpmforge
>>>> dag.repo                  fedora-updates-testing.repo         
>>>> livna-devel.repo            newrpms.repo
>>>> dries.repo                fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmnew  
>>>> livna-devel.repo.rpmorig    nrpms.repo
>>>> fedora-core.repo.rpmnew   fedora.us-extras                    
>>>> livna.repo                  nr.repo
>>>> fedora-core.repo.rpmsave  freshrpms.repo                      
>>>> livna.repo.rpmorig          rpmforge.repo
>>>> fedora-development.repo   freshrpms.repo.rpmnew               
>>>> livna.repo.rpmsave          yjl.repo
>>>> fedora-devel.repo         gstreamer-deps.repo                 
>>>> livna-testing.repo
>>>> fedora-extra-devel.repo   gstreamer.repo                      local-base
>>>> fedora-extra.repo         home.repo                           local-devel
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ I know it needs a big clean up.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> were you expecting things to just clear up by themselves while you make
>>> a complete nightmare of things?
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> No I not expecting things happen automatically but I dont have the 
>> confidence
>> to hack into files and make the mess worse than it already is.
>>     
> ----
> OK, try this...(you need root so simply 'su -')
>
> this is supplied so you could simply paste this all after you su to root
> per above
>
> cd /etc/yum.repos.d
> mkdir NOT-USED
> mv * NOT-USED # clear out all repos for the moment
> mv NOT-USED/fedora-development.repo.rpmsave fedora-development.repo
> mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave
> fedora-updates-testing.repo
> mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates.repo.rpmsave fedora-updates.repo
> mv NOT-USED/fedora.repo.rpmsave fedora.repo
>
> mv NOT-USED/livna.repo.rpmsave livna.repo
> mv NOT-USED/livna-testing.repo .
> mv NOT-USED/livna-devel.repo .
>
> # at this point, you should be able to yum update without much issue and
> I am presuming that the latest installs of fedora-release and
> livna-release put their repo files rpmsave because the originals were
> tainted.
>
> The rest of the repos you can add by mv the files back but only do 1 or
> 2 at a time so you will see if any have problems.
>
> Myself, I would probably move the rpmforge.repo back but it might be an
> issue depending upon how old it is. Possibly kde-redhat stuff (may be
> old), maybe jpackage...again, it could be old and broken
>
> Craig
>
>   
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# cd
[root at reddwarf ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mkdir NOT-USED
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv * NOT-USED # clear out all repos for the 
moment
mv: cannot move `NOT-USED' to a subdirectory of itself, `NOT-USED/NOT-USED'
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora-development.repo.rpmsave 
fedora-development.repo
mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/fedora-development.repo.rpmsave': No such file 
or directory
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave
mv: missing destination file operand after 
`NOT-USED/fedora-updates-testing.repo.rpmsave'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# fedora-updates-testing.repo
-bash: fedora-updates-testing.repo: command not found
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora-updates.repo.rpmsave 
fedora-updates.repo
mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/fedora-updates.repo.rpmsave': No such file or 
directory
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/fedora.repo.rpmsave fedora.repo
mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/fedora.repo.rpmsave': No such file or directory
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]#
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/livna.repo.rpmsave livna.repo
mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/livna.repo.rpmsave': No such file or directory
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/livna-testing.repo .
mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/livna-testing.repo': No such file or directory
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]# mv NOT-USED/livna-devel.repo .
mv: cannot stat `NOT-USED/livna-devel.repo': No such file or directory
[root at reddwarf yum.repos.d]#

   david