[WBEL-users] Trying to update WBL

[Jeff Yana]

Hello Phillipe-

Thanks for your reply. Currently, iptables are OFF, so no firewalling 
should be present.

Any other ideas?

Jeff

p.banholzer wrote:

>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.
>yum does its updates using TCP port 80 for http:// update URLs and uses
>passive FTP for ftp:// update URLs in /etc/yum.conf.
>
>passive FTP with iptables :
>/sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
># FTP
>iptables -A INPUT  -p tcp --sport 21 -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
>iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j
>ACCEPT
># passive FTP
>iptables -A INPUT  -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024:  -m state --state
>ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
>iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 1024: --dport 1024:  -m state --state
>ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>
>Philippe.
>
>Jeff Yana a écrit :
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>>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
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>>#######################################################################
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>>[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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