On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 21:04:37 -0500, Michael Klinosky <mpk2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been trying to fix a repository issue on a F8 machine. I was given > a 'teach you how to fish' version of the process; I made some progress, > but now I'm stumped. The advice was to find the RPM for this release, > and find the /etc/yum.repos.d file. > > I *think* that I found the RPM; on the dvd, in the directory 'Packages' > is "rpm-4.4.2.2-3.fc8.i386.rpm" - is that the file I need? (For a > download, it's .../os/Packages.) > > I opened it with the archive manager. My problem is that I can't find > that repos file. > > What's the story? The repo definition files should be in the release rpm. For example the one for rawhide is fedora-release-8.90-3.noarch.rpm . These install repo defition config files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ . You can edit those by hand if you want to point them at local mirrors or the like.
