yum repo

[Jeremy R Schmidt]

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 at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at 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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