On Tuesday 31 October 2006 10:49, McBroom, Robert C wrote: >Gene >Glad Craig got you on your way. > >Had to find this because I had just done it and couldn't remember the >details. The updated repos are sent with the distribution so all you >have to do is fetch the file > >fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm > >Form a source such as ><http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedor >a/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm> I did, looked at it with mc which can open rpms, and it didn't have a yum.repos.d subdir tree in the /etc branch. It was at that point I started wondering just what the apparent secrecy was all about, and started asking questions here. Oh, wait, that was yum-6.4.noarch I was looking at I think. Frankly, haveing it in the above release file may have good and valid reasons, but it doesn't make a millicent of sense when you are trying to fix a "yum" problem. IMNSHO, the yum distributed WITH the particular fedora core release, really ought to come as an all in one package, or at worst, a seperate package named yum-repos-FC5.noarch.rpm. Hideing it in a package that has no hint of being yum related seems like an open invite for somebody like me to screw it all up, which I royally did. And I don't believe I'm alone in this camp, aptly named confusion, located at 201143 clueless avenue, anytown, the world. >It will update the yum.repos.d file with the updates as xxx.repo.rpmnew. >From there you can make your fixes as you like them. > >Robert McBroom Many thanks for the heads up Robert, this is also 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.
