[BlueOnyx:07817] Re: 5107R Beta - Yum Repo files in oldrepofiles folder?

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Jim,

> I just tried to do a yum update from shell and nothing was available 
> even though Michael had indicated he updated the repository. I looked in 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/ and it was empty with a folder called oldrepofiles. 
> Looking in it I see BlueOnyx.repo and other files. I moved the 
> BlueOnyx.repo to the /etc/respos.d/ folder and then after doing a yum 
> update I can see a whole bunch of updates available.

Yeah, sorry about that. We recently released an update to 5107R only, which 
had a really negative effect on the repository files. Just move everything 
from /etc/yum.repos.d/oldrepos/ back into /etc/yum.repos.d/ and you should be 
fine again.

I had hoped that the short presence of that bad update didn't affect too many 
people. 

If in doubt if everything is fixed again, you can do this (only on 5107R!!!!):

***** 5107R only! **** ***** 5107R only! **** ***** 5107R only! ****

Do a "ls -la /etc/yum.repos.d/" to check which repository files you have in 
/etc/yum.repos.d/

It should look like this:

[root at 5107r ]# ls -la /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 40
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jul 20 17:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 99 root root 12288 Jul 24 22:10 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   733 Jul 12 20:06 0_WARNING.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   297 Jul 24 19:40 BlueOnyx.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1995 Feb 24 15:13 sl.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1291 Feb 24 15:13 sl-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   275 Jul 12 04:27 Solarspeed-BlueOnyx.repo

If it doesn't look like this, then remove all *.repo files from it and then 
reinstall the correct YUM repository files by reinstalling the respective RPMs 
that contain them:

rpm -hUv --force 
ftp://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6/i386/os/Packages/sl-
release-6.0-6.0.1.i686.rpm

rpm -hUv --force 
http://updates.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS6/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/blueonyx-
yumconf-2.0.0-3.i386.rpm

rpm -hUv --force 
http://updates.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS6/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/solarspeed-
blueonyx-repo-1.0.0-SOL3.i386.rpm

IF - and only if - this is VPS created from a BlueOnyx 5107R OS template, then 
you may want to reinstall this repository as well (not needed for the 5107R CD 
install!):

rpm -hUv --force 
http://blueonyx.solarspeed.net/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS6/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/solarspeed-
blueonyx-repo-1.0.0-SOL3.i386.rpm

We didn't release this update for 5106R, so those aren't affected and they do 
use different YUM repositories anyway. So pretty please, NOBODY run the above 
commands on a 5106R box, or that will cause wrecking damage.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber