[WBEL-users] Trying to update WBL

[p.banholzer]

First, if you want to use up2date you should register the whitebox key :
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-whitebox
but yum is today the preferred updater.

you should also reconsider your firewall rules.

Jeff Yana a écrit :

> I am a little confused about the updater facility in WBL. I have tried
> to run up2date and yum both but with no success. Below is a copy of my
> yum.conf file
>
> #######################################################################
>
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=whitebox-release
> tolerant=1
> exactarch=1
>
> [base]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/$releasever/en/os/$basearch
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/3.0/en/os/i386/
> ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/os/$basearch
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/$releasever/en/os/$basearch
>
> [updates-released]
> name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released
> Updates
> failovermethod=priority
> baseurl=http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/$releasever/en/updates/
> ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/$releasever/en/updates/
> ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/whiteboxlinux.org/$releasever/en/updates/
> http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/$releasever/en/updates/
>
> [dag]
> name=Dag Wieers' RHEL3 Repository
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/i386/dag/
>
> #[updates-testing]
> #name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased
> Updates
> #baseurl=http://whiteboxlinux.org/pub/$releasever/en/os/testing/
>
> ###################################################################################################
>
>
> Running up2date I receive the warning about the key, which has already
> been imported:
>
> ###################################################################################################
>
>
> Your GPG keyring does not contain the Red Hat, Inc. public key.
> Without it, you will be unable to verify that packages Update Agent
> downloads
> are securely signed by Red Hat.
>
> Your Update Agent options specify that you want to use GPG.
>
> To install the key, run the following as root:
>
>    rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
>
> ###################################################################################################
>
>
>
> Does WBL still use the RH signed packages, making this necessary,
> rendering the necessity of using the key useless?
>
> Running yum, here is what I get:
>
> ###################################################################################################
>
>
> [root at ldap1 rhn]# yum list
> 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 7] HTTP Error (CannotSendRequest):
>
> ###################################################################################################
>
>
>
>
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