how to upgrade packages through yum, ple help me out, from the basic like how to configure yum first through root and then to proceed.

thank you

What distro and version are you running?

You need to point to the repo. google yum.conf. The setting is set in /etc/yum.conf

to configure yum u need createrepo rpm
first off all install this rpm from ur DVD
then copy all the rpm from the DVD to the directory /var/ftp/pub
bydefault u might have already a created repo directory
first erase it
then type the command
createrepo /var/ftp/pub/
then make a file
vi /etc/yum.repo/abc.repo
in this file make these entry
******************************
[any name]
name=server1
baseurl=ftp://(IP ADDR)/pub
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
*****************************
save and exit
then type
"yum clean all"
"yum update all"
for using yum u need the configured ftp server
so configure ur ftp server
then restart the ftp server

when i tried to configure it says

Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=
rawhide&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: develop ment. Please verify its path and try again

so would you please help me out how to go along with

thank you

Joe

Until you tell us what distro and version you are running it is going to be pretty tough for us to help you any more.

ple help me how to find distro and version
thanks

This will probably get us there. In a terminal enter this

and post back the results.

Or from a terminal go

ls /etc/*release*

Should give something like

/etc/fedora-release

Then type

cat /etc/fedora-release

And it will tell you there (clearly the example above needs the correct name from the second step substituted)

Also
cat /etc/issue

Goto

/etc/yum.repos.d and edit the .repo file which is giving error

and

remove the comment before the baseurl and make
comment the mirrorlist

that's it problem solved very easy

bye