yum extra servers for getting packages and latest rpm of nano for fedora core 3

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Sun May 22 09:31:19 EDT 2005


Have you heard of Google?

You should try it. It's great for answering questions like these. That's
what I do, in any case.

So, I'm not going to answer your questions, because I'd have to go to
Google to get the answers, and I am not your slave.

Nick Gawronski writes:
> Hi, I got my fedora core 3 system back running again with the speakup 
> kernel.  I was wondering where I could get information on yum servers and 
> how to contact the fedora project on redhat because some packages should 
> be updated to the most stable and latest stable versions like nano?  Where 
> can I get a nano-1.2.5.i386.rpm file because fedora core 3 only contains 
> 1.2.4 and I want the latest version that is stable in rpm format?  Also, 
> looking in the services section in setup I see yum is a choice as a 
> service to start automatically when my system boots, is it recamended to 
> start this service for automatically updating and will it update 
> automatically like it does when I do yum -y update & then logout to let it 
> update in the background?  I also in /etc/rc.d/rc.local have a line that 
> reads /usr/bin/yum -y clean all is this a bad idea on boot to have yum 
> clean packages and headers?  bye
> 
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