From: clemens@xxxxxxx Im trying to use YUM with Fedora3, (I previously used apt-get), and I must be doing something stupid, but I cant see it. in /home/ftp/yum/fedora3/RPMS.os I have the RPMS from the 4 binary CDs in /home/ftp/yum/fedora3/RPMS.updates I have all the updates to date. I have run yum-arch on each of them, viz yum-arch /home/ftp/yum/fedora3/RPMS.os yum-arch /home/ftp/yum/fedora3/RPMS.updates my /etc/yum.conf file reads [root@orion etc]# more /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum # debuglevel=2 debuglevel=10 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest # distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 # gpgcheck=1 gpgcheck=0 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d [base] name=Fedora3 Core base baseurl=ftp://orion/yum/fedora3/RPMS.os gpgcheck=0 [updates] name=Fedora3 Core updates baseurl=ftp://orion/yum/fedora3/RPMS.updates gpgcheck=0 --- When I TRY to run 'yum update' to bring this initial install up to date, I get the message: [root@orion ~]# yum update Repository base already added, not adding again Yum Version: 2.1.11 COMMAND: yum update Installroot: / You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing. However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download the keys for packages you wish to install and install them. You can do that by running the command: rpm --import public.gpg.key For more information contact your distribution or package provider. --- Now I have several problems: (1) why is it saying 'You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys' when I turned that off in [main] and in each section??? (2) The command 'rpm --import public.gpg.key' does NOT work, I get: root@orion ~]# rpm --import public.gpg.key error: public.gpg.key: import read failed. (3) What is this message 'Repository base already added, not adding again' --- any and all help appreciated,- If I cant get this thing to work, or at least get some sensable error messages out of it, Im going to have to go back to apt-get (sigh). Reg.Clemens reg@xxxxxxx
