[BlueOnyx:07818] Re: 5107R Beta - Yum Repo files in oldrepofiles folder?

[Jim Scott]

Thanks Michael,

> 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.
>

Here is what my directory had just as an FYI. I will do as you stated 
and remove and install as you suggested.

-rw-r-----  1 root root  360 Jul 24 17:51 BlueOnyx.repo
-rw-r-----  1 root root  431 Jul 19 15:43 sl-fastbugs.repo
-rw-r-----  1 root root  390 Jul 19 15:43 sl.repo
-rw-r-----  1 root root  432 Jul 19 15:43 sl-security.repo
-rw-r-----  1 root root  393 Jul 19 15:43 sl-source.repo
-rw-r-----  1 root root  408 Jul 19 15:43 sl-testing.repo
-rw-r-----  1 root root  408 Jul 19 15:43 sl-testing-source.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1291 Feb 24 12:13 sl-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  275 Jul 12 01:27 Solarspeed-BlueOnyx.repo