up2date using Fedora Core 1
Fred Nastos
nastos-JAjqph6Yjy8fbXvGcxQkLSwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 13 18:32:28 UTC 2004
On January 13, 2004 10:12 am, Gregory Pleau wrote:
> > > Does the up2date / red exclamation point that is on the bottom
> > > right of
> > > the screen supposed to work in Fedora somehow or must I use "yum
> > > update" instead?
> >
> > I was attempting to update my Fedora Core 1 system, although both
> > through the GUI, and command line didn't work. Perhaps they are having
> > some problems at their end(up2date servers).
> >
> > Anybody having similar problems?
>
> Scads of problems. Timeouts, GPG signature NOT being added to the keyring
> even though I run " rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY ". I finally
> just up and switched to yum. Especially when I found the freshrpms.net yum
> repository and can get my mp3/dvd support back when I do something silly
> like update xmms.
These errors are occuring because the main server is being overrun.
I, and almost everyone else it seems, was having the same problem.
If you still want to use up2date, you just need to set up rpm to
access a mirror (you can get the list from http://fedora.redhat.com.
Change your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file. Here is mine (without the
comments), which includes the duke.edu mirror:
######### begin
yum duke http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os
yum duke-updates
http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/
yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
yum updates-released http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
yum livna http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
######### end
See the fedora-users mailing list for more info.
> Heck nice upgrade trick -
>
> Run up2date on your Redhat 7,8,9 system and bring it up to current.
> Get fedora-release-1-3.rpm from ftp.redhat.com,
> rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-3.rpm
> yum -y update
Very pretty. I will definitely try it.
Fred
> Wait a while and you get a nice upgrade to Fedora Core, without having to
> shut the system down or download ISOs. Sometimes there might be about a
> dozen dependencies but works great for remote upgrades.
>
> - Greg
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