On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:19:16PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > 2008/12/15 Girish Venkatasubramanian <girishvs@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hello, > > I have been using yum on FC5 (I know I should upgrade - but I don't > > have that option - due to the specifications at work) without any > > issues till about a couple of weeks ago. For the last couple of weeks, > > every time I try to install something via yum I end up getting the > > message "Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core" > > Fedora releases are only supported for something like 18 months after > they are released. You're really lucky that your yum repositories have > kept running for as long as they have - and I'm surprised that > anything new has appeared in them during the last year. I strongly > suspect that you'll be missing a number of important security updates. Fedora releases are supported for approximately one month after the second following release. In other words, Fedora 9 will be supported until about one month after the release of Fedora 11. This means the expected lifetime of a release is around 13 months, give or take a week or two. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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