On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:21, Craig White wrote: >On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Over the weekend I tried to drag out my lappy and update it, getting >> ready to upgrade to FC6, its currently FC5, but about 2 weeks out of >> date. >> >> To make a long story shorter, what with editing the repo addresses, >> putting fedoraproject.org in where downloads-redhat.com was due to the >> repo or mirroring failures, I now have a __.000db file that when I shut >> it down yesterday, was a zero length file and both yumex and smart >> package manager were spitting out terminal tummy aches over it. An >> 'rpm --rebuilddb' also fails, as does an "rpm --initdb" >> >> Humm, now this morning, its back to complaining about an "invalid >> baseurl for core". >> >> As that _000.db file seems to be missing now, and its not bitching >> about it ATM, whats the next step here?, I've been out of the loop >> since last wednesday, out on the road. So if its been posted, whats >> the subject line? > >---- >try removing the # (commenting out) the baseurl >in /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo > I've been trying to edit that and have it thoroughly fubared. If I can't restore what was there, and amanda doesn't try to track that lappy, what is the correct contents for the "mirrorlist=" line in fedora-core.repo? Where can I download a replacement for the contents of /etc/yum.repos.d? I've had google searching for it, but all it can seem to find is the livna setup instructions. They seem to be fine. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
