[BlueOnyx:08306] Re: Yum not updating

[Chuck Tetlow]

Ah...  That's it!

36 packages to install, 259 to update.  That's more like it.

Thanks for the help Mike.

Chuck

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> 
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> 
Sent: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:58:17 +0200 
Subject: [BlueOnyx:08305] Re: Yum not updating

> Hi Chuck, 
> 
> > I've got a VM on my Fedora desktop running the new 5107R inside 
> > VirtualBox. 
> > 
> > [...] 
> > 
> > After noticing that, I got to looking around a bit and found there were no 
> > "repo" file in /etc/yum.repos.d.  There's a warning file about not using 
> > RPMforge, and there's a directory called "oldrepofiles" - but no repo 
> > files.  In that /etc/yum.repos.d/oldrepofiles directory - I find: 
> 
> Ok, I see the problem. In the early days of 5107R we temporarily had a 
> somewhat broken set of base-swupdate RPM's in the YUM repository, which we 
> quickly pulled again.   
> 
> The presence of the /etc/yum.repos.d/oldrepofiles/ directory (which contains 
> the unmodified YUM repository files) tells me that you apparently got the 
> faulty base-swupdate RPMs installed in the brief time that it was out. :o( 
> 
> Do this to fix the problem (5107R only!): 
> 
> rm /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo 
> 
> rpm -hUv --force   
> http://devel.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS6/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/blueonyx- 
> yumconf-2.0.0-3.i386.rpm 
> 
> rpm -hUv --force   
> http://devel.blueonyx.it/pub/BlueOnyx/5106R/CentOS6/blueonyx/i386/RPMS/solarspeed- 
> blueonyx-repo-1.0.0-SOL3.i386.rpm 
> 
> rpm -hUv --force   
> ftp://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.1/i386/os/Packages/sl- 
> release-6.1-2.i686.rpm 
> 
> Then run "yum clean all" ; "yum update" and you should be good again. 
> 
> -- 
> With best regards 
> 
> Michael Stauber 
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