On Tuesday 31 October 2006 09:44, Craig White wrote: >On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 10:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> 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. > >---- >this is mine... (altered per instructions from wiki for FC-5) > >************************************************************************* >** # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo >[core] >name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch >#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$release >ver/$basearch/os/ > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=core-$releas >ever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 >gpgcheck=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora >file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > >[core-debuginfo] >name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasev >er/$basearch/debug/ enabled=0 >gpgcheck=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora >file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > >[core-source] >name=Fedora Core $releasever - Source >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasev >er/source/SRPMS/ enabled=0 >gpgcheck=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora >file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY > >************************************************************************* >******* # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo >[extras] >name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch >#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$relea >sever/$basearch/ > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=extras-$rele >asever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras >gpgcheck=1 > >[extras-debuginfo] >name=Fedora Extras $releasever - $basearch - Debug >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releas >ever/$basearch/debug/ enabled=0 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras >gpgcheck=1 > >[extras-source] >name=Fedora Extras $releasever - Source >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releas >ever/SRPMS/ enabled=0 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras >gpgcheck=1 > >************************************************************************* >******* > ># cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo >[updates] >name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$ >releasever/$basearch/ > mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-rele >ased-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 >gpgcheck=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > >[updates-debuginfo] >name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Updates - Debug >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$ >releasever/$basearch/debug/ enabled=0 >gpgcheck=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora > >[updates-source] >name=Fedora Core $releasever - Updates Source >baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$ >releasever/SRPMS/ enabled=0 >gpgcheck=1 >gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora Thanks, that did seem to do it. Much appreciated. -- 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.