[Uaflug] Fedora Core 6

[Christine Kluka]

Thanks all for your very helpful replies!  

The problem with yum is resolved - while following Doug Knight's advice, I
tried to reconstruct what went wrong but can only say that it works now.  I
take it that this only puts the problem off for another month or so - if I
discover that I'm missing another rpm that I need, I won't be able to
download it?  

At that point I'll look into Centos - I rarely change my RHES version on
the other server anyway (version 4 should be good enough for a while).

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:35:12 -0900, Doug Knight <fxdck at uaf.edu> wrote:
> Christine,
> 
> If yum is configured to use a mirrorlist, you may have downloaded the
> package
> list from a server that was just synced, then been directed to a
different
> server that didn't have the packages yet when you tried to do the
install.
> I've had this problem with out of date mirrors before.  You'll usually be
> directed to a different server each time yum is run.
> 
> If this is the case, you can just keep trying to install the packages
> until
> it works, or in your fedora.repo, comment out the mirrorlist, uncomment
> the
> baseurl for downlaod.fedora.redhat.com, then ``yum clear all'', followed
> by
> ``yum list''.  Make sure you still see the packages, and do your ``yum
> install <package-name>''.  Then be nice and point it back at the mirrors
> when
> you're done, or point it at a local mirror such as ModZer0 (I'm sure
> someone
> on the list knows what the url for ModZer0's fedora mirror is).
> 
> Doug
> 
> Christine Kluka wrote:
>>
>> I tried updating rpm's with yum update on Fedora Core 6 and couldn't
> find
>> update matches that appear when running yum list. I know that Fedora
> Core 7
>> is out, but it's a little ridiculous to stop supporting Fedora Core 6
> for
>> packages I haven't even installed.  Is this just me, or is that a Redhat
>> policy?
>>
>> If it is, I'll return to Ubuntu (Debian) which supported its older
> versions
>> when I used it last.
>>
>> Let me know, thanks
>>
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