Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On 1/22/06, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: "Robert L Cochran" <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Yesterday I attempted to service my mother-in-law's FC4 computer, which
I know needs about 100 Mb or so worth of updates -- most of that for
OpenOffice. I only have a short window of opportunity to do this since
she lives a fair distance. Each time I ran 'yum update' I would get
responses very similar to this:
[...]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 969 kB 00:34
extras : ################################################## 2815/2815
Added 15 new packages, deleted 12 old in 3.45 seconds
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
I don't see the fedora-updates repository in there. She's not getting
updates because her machine isn't configured to install them.
Create a file in /etc/yum.repos.d called fedora-updates that contains
the following:
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
Then re-run 'yum update'.
Thanks for your help. It looks like I'm causing confusion, all because I
showed an example with a lot of the 'yum update' output snipped away so
I could zero in on the issue of interest. The output shown is actually
from my own machine, not from the machine I want to update.
fedora-updates.repo is installed by default when you install fedora-release:
[rlc@bobcp4 ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
fedora-release-4-2
and I didn't edit the default installation on the target machine in any
way.
Please note that the above rpm output is an example provided from my own
machine.
Thanks
Bob
