[WBEL-users] Running up2date

Denis Croombs denis@just-servers.co.uk
Fri, 21 May 2004 15:23:43 +0100


> > Thanks for that, here is my file, I have made the changes and I only
> > have 1 entry, which I assume should work OK ?
> >
> > # uncomment one of the alternates below.
> >
> > #yum WBEL-3.0 http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386
> > #yum updates-released http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/updates
> > #yum updates-testing
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-1
> >
> > yum WBEL-3.0 ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/
> > yum updates-released
> > ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/
> > # yum WBEL-3.0
> > ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/os/i386/ # yum
> > updates-released
> > ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/updates/
> >
> > ### an local directory full of packages
> > ### format
> > #dir my-favorite-rpms-i386-9 /var/spool/RPMS/
> >
> >
> > # multiple versions of all repos except "up2date" can be used.
> > Depenencies # can be resolved "cross-repo" if need be.
> I presume that the linebreaks between updates-released and the http
> reference were added by the mail system.  If that is the case, then I
> would expect that to work properly.
>
> What happens when you run it?
>
[root@rdcredits root]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/3.0/en/os/i386/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[root@rdcredits root]#


Thanks

Denis


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