The Site With the Lamp

June 22, 2008

I mentioned that there were hardly any noticable changes since moving from fedora 8 to fedora 9. That's probably because the upgrade process is messed up. Consider this:

[fedora]
name=Fedora 8 - x86_64
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/x86_64/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-8&arch=x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora 8 - x86_64 - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/x86_64/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-8&arch=x86_64
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora 8 - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-8&arch=x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

That's the content of my /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo note that it refers to release 8 when it should refer to 9. The files in /etc/yum.repos.d are created by the 'fedora-release-9-2.noarch.rpm'. That has apparently been installed. That has apparently been installed according to the rpm command.

Interestingly any 'yum update' command results in:

followed by:

Setting up Update Process
Could not find update match for mythtv
No Packages marked for Update

Yet the product websites and browsing through the repositories clearly show that there are newer versions available. At this point I tried editing the files in the yum.repos.d folder by hand to change '8' to '9'. The message about repmod did go away, and now updates seems to be happening.

Later I realised that I should copy the repo file from /media/Fedora\ 9\ x86_64\ DVD/media.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/Fedora-install-media.repo so that anything on the DVD can be installed wtihout having to download again.