Re: another yum error... (mis-configuration?)

[Elton Woo <elwoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Mo, den 29.12.2003 schrieb Elton Woo um 07:35:
>  
>
> > William Hooper wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Elton Woo said:
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > > > Error getting file
> > > > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/stable/fedora-core-1/headers/header.info
> > > > > > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> > > > > >       
> > > > > >
> > > > > >            
> > > > > Where did this URL come from?  Are you still looking for the Fedora.us
> > > > > (aka Fedora Extras) repos?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/
> > > > >
> > > > >     
> > > > >
> > > > >          
> > > > I dunno. <*shrug*> That is the output that I get when I run
> > > > "yum install apt", from a root console.
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > After you made the changes below?  Notice that I gave you the correct URL
> > > above.
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Please bear with me  <G> ... I realize that I might be trying your 
> > patience. The first
> > *three* entries in my yum.conf are the defaults, save that I removed the 
> > REM (#)
> > from the third one.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > > FWIW: Here's my yum.conf file to which I've added the last two
> > > > entries:
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > [stable]
> > > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Stable
> > > > baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/stable/fedora-core-$releasever
> > > >
> > > > [unstable]
> > > > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unstable
> > > > baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/unstable/fedora-core-$releasever
> > > >   
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > Quick sanity check, replace $releasever with 1 (since this is Fedora Core
> > > 1), put these URLs into your favorite web browser, and you will see that
> > > these two don't exist.  To double check, add "/headers/header.info" to the
> > > end to try to get the header info file.  Still don't exist.
> > >
> > >      
> > I *think* I'm beginning to follow you. And I do agree. These do not show 
> > when
> > I use them in mozilla. I get a 404 instead. So, my mistake was simply 
> > copying the
> > first line of yum.conf, and just *adding* "stable" and "unstable"?
> >
> > Also, (sorry) I *ought to have mentioned this before*. I decided to add 
> > the extra
> > two entries when I had started to get an error when running yum from the 
> > root
> > console. Getting a bit confused now, so (if I may test your patience a 
> > wee bit
> > more...) would you kindly give me some "dummied / newibieized" instructions
> > on what *exactly* I should enter in those two extra entries, and / or if 
> > there
> > is something I need to correct in the default (first three) ones?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Elton.
> >    
>
> Elton,
>
> as you (hopefully) can see from the above, your mail clients does a
> strange and hard reading formating. It breaks lines with just one or two
> words. Is it a setting that you have a very long line size before it
> breaks? It seams that it only happens with your own text, not with
> quoted text.
>
> Alexander
Does *this* look better? I admit that I usually do a hard return using 
my enter key whenever I get to just about where this very sentence says 
"using", rather than let the program (mozilla-mail do the wrapping for 
me. In this instance, I am *purposely*  NOT doing so.  How does my 
message look now? ... notice that I did not quote the entire original 
message.

Thanks,

Elton ;-)

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