On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:22:33 +0100 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm puzzled by this comment, which seems to have closed > > Bug 508439 - preupgrade has "Failed to fetch release info." > > ---------------------------------- > This capture shows that preupgrade tries to get the url > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt > and fails with a error from the remote server. > > ------- Comment #5 From Ricky Zhou (rzhou@xxxxxxxxxx) 2009-06-28 > 04:50:17 EDT (-) [reply] ------- > > My apologies, we recently rebuilt some servers and missed that file. > This should be fixed now, thanks for the report. > ---------------------------------- > > I still don't find the above file releases.txt . > Does anyone? > > > I plunked that link into ff and immediately brought up the file. It is relatively short so I pasted it below. # Example releases.list. # The official version is here: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt # # This file contains a list of available Fedora releases. # Format is as follows: # #[Release Name] # - Header for this release. Typically: [Fedora X (Codename)] #version=FLOAT # - Required. Version number for this release. #stable=BOOL # - Optional. Marks a release as stable/final. Defaults to false. #preupgrade-ok=BOOL # - Optional. Marks a release as usable with preupgrade. Defaults to false. #eol-date=YYYYMMDD # - Optional. Gives the date on which the release stops getting updates. #mirrorlist=URL # - Mirrorlist URL for the main repo for this release. #baseurl=URL # - Single URL for the main repo for this release. #installmirrorlist=URL # - Mirrorlist for the *installable tree* for this release # (i.e. this address needs an images/ dir and .treeinfo) #installurl=URL # - Single URL for the installable tree. # # One of (mirrorlist or baseurl) is required. If those trees do not contain # boot images (like Fedora 8's Everything tree) then an installurl or # installmirrorlist is required. [Rawhide] # Rawhide is *always* the newest - hence version 999 stable=False preupgrade-ok=True version=999 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os [Fedora 11 (Leonidas)] stable=True preupgrade-ok=True version=11 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=$basearch installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/$basearch/os [Fedora 10 (Cambridge)] stable=True preupgrade-ok=True version=10 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-10&arch=$basearch installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/$basearch/os # You can't reliably preupgrade to these. # They're only here so we know when they've gone EOL. [Fedora 9 (Sulphur)] stable=True version=9 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-9&arch=$basearch installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/$basearch/os eol-date=20090703 [Fedora 8 (Werewolf)] stable=True version=8 eol-date=20090107 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=$basearch installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/$basearch/os [Fedora 7 (Moonshine)] stable=True version=7 eol-date=20080613 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-7&arch=$basearch installmirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/$basearch/os # vim: syntax=dosini -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines