On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 11:13 -0700, Skunk Worx wrote: > I've ended up with a yum problem on a FC3 machine and am curious if > there is a way to fix it. > > 1) I've used rsync to create a local repository on my filesystem. This > seems fine. This is in preparation for lan-based updates. Does directory /space/mirror/fc/core/3/i386/os/repodata exist on your mirror? > 2) Earlier in the week, before the rsync, I was running out of drive > space, and in a hurry, I deleted /var/cache/yum. "yum clean packages" would be a better option next time this happens. In fact I have a cron job to do this every night, to keep the cache tidy. Did you re-create /var/cache/yum? > 3) Now I have in my /etc/yum.conf : > > # cat /etc/yum.conf > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=fedora-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=10 > > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=file:///space/mirror/fc/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ > > [extras] > name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch > baseurl=file:///space/mirror/fc/extras/$releasever/$basearch/ It is better to put repo definitions as .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d from FC3 onwards, rather than editing yum.conf. This helps maintainability, and is the "official" way of doing things. > 4) When I ran "yum update" the first time, it gave a backtrace into > python, and then I remembered I had deleted the var/cache/yum > directory...oops. > > 5) Running "yum update" again took a little while, but it ran. However, > the final line of output is : > > No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion > > ...which I don't think is correct, since I can see newer packages in the > rsync repo (and the /var/log/yum.log shows the last update was June 8th.) You have mirrors of [extras] and [base] but not of [updates-released]? > "yum install" is working properly, just no updates. > > Changing the baseurl's to http://some-net-repo yields the same result; > install of a package is okay, but no update/obsoletions are detected. > > Any ideas on how to correct this? Yum does not seem to be able to detect > the presence of the newer packages anymore. Can you post the output of "yum check-update"? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
