Hi, I've just installed fc3 at my home computer and wanted to update the system. So I rsynced the updates-released repo from a mirror and configured my yum.conf, fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo files. My yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d My fedora.repo: [base] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 My fedora-updates.repo: [updates-released] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates baseurl=file:///mnt/l1/mirror/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 I have no other repos enabled besides base and updates-released and I imported the public keys of fedora into my rpm database. After that I tried to update the system with 'yum update', but noticed that my local mirror of updates-released didn't have a repodata directory. Then I ran createrepo on my local mirror in order to create the necessary metadata and yum was finally able to update the system (at least yum said that it's able to update the system successfully). However, after the update I noticed some problems: - rpm tells me that there is no package named xorg-x11 installed (I have the files from that package in my filesystem, but I just don't know if they are from the new rpm or the old one) # rpm -q xorg-x11 package xorg-x11 is not installed # rpm -qa xorg-x11* xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-doc-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-Xnest-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-sdk-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 - yum said that it had installed a new kernel but it hadn't (running 'yum update' again installed it) I've found these lines in my /var/log/yum.log file after running 'yum update' the first time: Nov 28 01:15:35 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ... Nov 28 01:16:27 Updated: xorg-x11.i386 6.8.1-12.FC3.1 So.. does yum (or rpm) have a bug? Or have I completely lost the point and messed things up real bad? Regards, -- Ulisses
