Re: Sample yum.conf for FC2?

From: beartooth (bearISTHISADDRESSVALIDtooth_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:49:48 -0500

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:55:49 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>
> "beartooth" <beartooth@adelphia.net> wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.02.25.18.40.34.79684@adelphia.net...
>>
>> Does someone have a sample yum.conf I can simply copy in and run? I'm
>> trying to upgrade just because I've been having such uneven success
>> keeping FC1 updated with yum. (Yes, I tried FC3; it and I are not
>> ready for one another yet.) I understand synaptic is a good way to go; but
>> I'd like to have the OS reasonably up to date before I set out to learn
>> and use something new.
>
> Yuim is not recommended for full OS upgrades, for a bunch of reasons. But
> you can basically edit yum.conf and replace "releasever" with the desired OS
> release's number to allow Yum to gather information on the potential
> packages and conflicts.

My bad: I didn't upgrade with yum. I got CDs and did it with them. Now
that I *have* FC2, I would like to tell it once to update itself nightly
-- and have it work. With four machines running FC1, it worked on two and
failed every time on two -- and the error messages were over my head.

But I don't insist on yum. I like it better than up2date, when it works,
because then it's easier, and also works on things that RH has not yet
blessed. Otoh, it seems to take more maintenance than up2date, not less.

I've heard that synaptic is supposed to be good, for instance;
but all I know about it is how to spell it -- and googling it gets >64K
hits, mostly over my head .... 

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