Cups problem

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 16 01:59:05 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 11:29 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
> 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]#
----
that was intended for BEFORE you decided to move things around

See my other e-mail

Craig




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