From: "Jeremy R Schmidt" <jerschmi2@bis.midco.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: yum repo
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:00:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000f01c61d76$1fd97810$6401a8c0@jerschmi2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060120004245.GC16894@rednote.net>
Hi,
Can you tell me what repos you use, or can you attach your .repo files in a
message to me?
My yum didn't appear to work, gave errors when I ran it.
Think my .repo files may have been old.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: yum repo
> No, you're way off base.
>
> Extras is not for updates. There are separate repos for updates. Extras
> are just that, extra rpms not part of Fedora base.
>
> You should have repos defined in /etc/yum.repos.d, unless your yum is
> very old. Your first action, in any case, should be:
>
> yum upgrade yum
>
> In particular, be sure to put:
> exclude=kernel kernel-smp kernel-doc
>
> in your /etc/yum.conf, or you'll be wondering what happened to your
> Speakup Modified kernel.
>
>
> he yum FAQ is at:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
> Jeremy R Schmidt writes:
>> Anyone know of a good yum repo to use?
>> I'm going to try:
>> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/
>>
>> Is this all I need if I want to install updates?
>> I'm using fc4, and my kernel is a 2.6.13.x (the speakup modified one).
>> The url I mentioned above appears to just be for extras, so wil I need
>> to
>> use a different site?
>>
>> If so, any recommendations?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>>
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