up2date - yum

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

David Woodhouse wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 17:51 +0100, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
>  
>
>># yum check-update
>>Setting up Repo:  fc3-updates-ppc
>>ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/fc3-updates-ppc/repodata/repomd.xml: 
>>[Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
>>Trying other mirror.
>>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fc3-updates-ppc
>>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from fc3-updates-ppc: [Errno 256] No more 
>>mirrors to try.
>>    
>>
>
>Known yum bug. 
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145886
>
>Revert to yum 2.0.x (from FC2)
>

fc3-updates, fc3-test :-))

do you have no fc3 box  where you could execute creaetrepo and copy  
repodata/  into your repository (fc2-box)  or you have writeacces via 
ftp, nfs, smb, ... ?

seth  #3
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/generate//createrepo-0.4.2-1.src.rpm

> or just use up2date.
>

yep.

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shrek-m