yum repo help needed

Mike Wright mike.wright at mailinator.com
Fri Sep 20 22:23:20 UTC 2013


09/20/2013 02:39 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 01:59 PM, Mike Wright issued this missive:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an very old and cranky laptop that won't install past f14, used
>> mostly as a scanner/print station.
>>
>> I'm trying to update some of its software using yum.  I created a repo,
>> fedora-archive.repo:
>>
>> [archive]
>> name=Fedora 14 - i386
>> failovermethod=priority
>> baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/i386/os/
>>
>>
>> enabled=1
>> metadata_expire=7d
>> gpgcheck=1
>>
>> Given this command:
>>
>>    yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=fedora-archive.repo update -y
>
> I think that should be "--enablerepo=archive" (name of the archive,
> not the name of the repo file).

Rick, you're the man!

Command now completes with "No Packages marked for Update".  Possibly 
indicates a never updated install.

Anybody have any idea where the archived *updates* repo may be?



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