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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Yumex: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora (Kam Leo)
2. Re: stop stupidly telling people to do "yum clean all" when
it's not necessary (Aldo Foot)
3. Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please? (Steve Searle)
4. Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please? (DB)
5. Re: How Fedora chose me (gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx)
6. The "other distro" to offer ppc support! (gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx)
7. Re: stop stupidly telling people to do "yum clean all" when
it's not necessary (Patrick O'Callaghan)
8. Re: The "other distro" to offer ppc support! (Derek Piazza)
9. Re: stop stupidly telling people to do "yum clean all" when
it's not necessary (Kam Leo)
10. No sound for second user in Fedora 11? (Michael Hannon)
11. Re: How Fedora chose me (Paul)
12. Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please?
(Michael Semcheski)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:37:49 -0700
From: Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Yumex: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: fedora
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID:
<f84880b00909151437q360fb168pb6c48e6316c90e3b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:45 AM, suvayu ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jwalant,
Could you please stick to the posting guidelines for the list? Top
posting makes reading and replying in context rather cumbersome. Now
about the issue at hand ...
2009/9/15 Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji <jwalant.soneji@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Suvayu,
2009/9/15 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 14 September 2009 06:42 PM, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
Meanwhile, what I did was to copy the base URL and paste it in to the
browser address bar. Tried to open each URL, removing last tag if not
found.
This way, it put me to the nearest URL (IITK, India). And then selected
F10,
i386/686, and thus got the new URL, which I pasted in the repo files. It
seems to be working.
Or you could have just looked here, :-p
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/
Thanks!
Please confirm that replacing the base URL with the nearest server address
no negative consequences.
If you comment out the mirrorlist line and replace the baseurl line
with a mirror of your choice there shouldn't be any problems.
However you do limit receiving updates for your system by becoming
dependent on one particular mirror. If that mirror goes down for some
reason, you would need to edit the line again to be able to update
your system. In your case however this doesn't make much of a
difference because afaik the IITK mirror is the only mirror anywhere
near India.
The above information is not correct. Yum allows use of multiple
repos. Here's a snippet from "man yum.conf":
baseurl
Must be a URL to the directory where the yum repository’s ‘repo-
data’ directory lives. Can be an http://, ftp:// or file:// URL.
You can specify multiple URLs in one baseurl statement. The best
way to do this is like this:
[repositoryid]
name=Some name for this repository
baseurl=url://server1/path/to/repository/
url://server2/path/to/repository/
url://server3/path/to/repository/
If you list more than one baseurl= statement in a repository you
will find yum will ignore the earlier ones and probably act
bizarrely. Don’t do this, you’ve been warned.
You can use HTTP basic auth by prepending "user:password@" to
the server name in the baseurl line. For example:
"baseurl=http://user:passwd@xxxxxxxxxxx/";.
EXAMPLE:
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo
[updates]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Updates
failovermethod=priority
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
#mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
Hope this was helpful
PS: We should have more mirrors in India, there is a lot of potential
for Fedora to grow there considering the economics of the region.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:54:42 -0700
From: Aldo Foot <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: stop stupidly telling people to do "yum clean all" when
it's not necessary
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID:
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Alan Evans <ame.fedora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
To clean the data about what's available to yum, simply use "yum clean
metadata".
People, stop issuing stupid advice. Yes, it IS "stupid" advice, it's
offering things without due thought. That is what being stupid means.
Well, I'm sorry that I'm stupid. In the future, if I think I might be
able to help someone, I'll just keep my mouth shut.
Community assistance, indeed.
___
Don't be discourage or the OP will have achieved his goal. It's not the
first time he calls someone stupid on this list. Who know why he feels
entitled to such extreme and why he thinks every time his target will
simply absorb the insult. Not desirable at all.
Don't give up on helping others. Instead consider citing sources that
backup your statements or a short explanation like "do this... because"
or a warning about what the action might do to a system. Sometimes
it's better to take a bit of time and give a good advice rather than post
pointlessly and respond to every message on this list.
~af
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:56:35 +0100
From: Steve Searle <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Understanding Local Networking - help please?
To: Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Community assistance, encouragement, and
advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20090915215635.GA5667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Around 10:34pm on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (UK time), DB scrawled:
Does anyone have any suggestions how to proceed??
I'm no expert, but this might help move things on.
I assume each machine can ping the router, as their Internet connextions
work. However, can each machine ping both other machines?
Steve
