I was forced to delete _everything_ under /var/spool/up2date to fix this issue. The partial deletes mentioned in earlier posts did not help me. Now up2date is behaving _very_ well. -Shawn On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:39, Andy Choens wrote: > Ok, I would like to update all of my packages to the latest Yarrow > Release. I've been using Severn since .94 and have loved it. My > computer thinks it is a Yarrow release, although it is missing a few > final pieces. But, whenever I run up2date to get them, I get the > following error. > > Error while retrieving package desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-18. > The message was: > > An HTTP error occurred: > URL: > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/s390x/Fedora/RPMS/desktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-18.noarch.rpm > Status Code: 404 > Error Message: Not Found > > Of course, the careful eye will notice that there is no such thing as > ...os/s390x/.... It should read .../os/Fedora/.... > > > I could just manually download the files by hand, there are only 5, > and rpm -Uvh, but I'm a perfectionist and I want up2date to work. So, > I downloaded from FTP the latest up2date, thinking that might help. > No dice, same error. I then checked my up2date config files to make > sure I was going to the right place. > > so, from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources > > yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1 > yum updates-released > http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1 > > which, as I understand it, should take me to the right place. So, > what am I doing wrong? There is no directory s390x, how can I route > around it? > > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 08:35, snookertb wrote: > > Why not just do an update from the released disks? > > > > tb > > > > Philip Balister wrote: > > > > >I have a laptop with Fedora installed from the Severndisks and I kept it > > >updated. WHat is the best way to make certain it has the "official" release on it: > > > > > >1) Reinstall from CD > > >2) Make up2date work again (it's wigged out again) > > >3) Something else > > > > > >I know this has been touched on here, but the answer seems to have been lost. > > > > > >Philip > > > > > > > > >-- > > >fedora-list mailing list > > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
