up2date using Fedora Core 1

[Mel Seder]

--- Fred Nastos <nastos-JAjqph6Yjy8fbXvGcxQkLSwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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



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Should I delete the following 3 lines including "up2date default" from
my sources file that you mention above and put in?  Also could you put
your above code in a text file for me please?  Then I'll be able to
paste it. I think my mail service (yahoo.com) is wrapping the lines on
me.

up2date default
yum fedora-core-1 http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
yum updates-released  ## con't on next line I suspect
http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1
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> 
> 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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