Editing Yum or Apt Repository addreses

redhat beginer · 04-22-2005, 06:47 PM

how do I add repositories to my yum and apt programs? I need an address, like http or an ftp and such, put how do I actually edit the sources.list text? Do I command $vim sources list while in the respective directory? How do I save it once added?

homey · 04-22-2005, 07:39 PM

Yes, you can use vi sources list to add a proper site.
Press insert so you can add text.
When you are done, press escape.
Then type the command :wq! to save and quit the editing.

You will need a valid url for Redhat enterprise.

spariggio82 · 04-23-2005, 02:50 AM

If I'm not wrong you should edit your yum.conf file (I don't know the equivalent for apt).

and there add your (new) repositories.

Good luck

redhat beginer · 04-23-2005, 01:57 PM

ok, here is what I did

Quote:

terminal
[measroot@mycomputer apt]# vi sources list

Quote:

[i edited the file and now it looks like this]
rpm http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/da...ftware/redhat/
rpm ftp://ftp.au.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ freshrpms
rpm http://apt.sw.be dries/redhat/el3/en/i386 dries
rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/ newrpms
rpm http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ dag
rpm http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/ atrpms

Then I similarly commanded vi yum.config and now my yum.config file looks like

Quote:

rpm http://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/da...oftware/redhat
rpm ftp://ftp.au.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ freshrpms
rpm http://apt.sw.be dries/redhat/el3/en/i386 dries
rpm http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/ newrpms
rpm http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ dag
rpm http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/ atrpms/

Are these correct? I think that there is a problem tho because when I command as root yum update the output is

Quote:

Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Linux Null - i386 - core
retrygrab() failed for:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linu...rs/header.info
Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linu...rs/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

So, uhm, wth is going on?

homey · 04-23-2005, 03:50 PM

I don't have RHEL3 so you may want to find real examples for that distro.
These examples using Centos may get you going in the right direction.

Code:

Here is an example of what my apt-get sources.list looks like for CentOS 4.0 .
For your distro, using a valid url, it should be similar in style to this.

#rpm http://caos.oregonstate.edu /centos-4/4.0/apt/i386 os updates
#rpm-src http://caos.oregonstate.edu /centos-4/4.0/apt/i386 os updates

rpm http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu /pub/mirrors/linux/centos/4.0/apt/i386 os updates
#rpm-src http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu /pub/mirrors/linux/centos/4.0/apt/i386 os updates

Earlier versions like the one you have just used the /etc/yum.config instead of the /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo like I'm using. 
Here is what the /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo file looks like 
but you can keep using the /etc/yum.config .

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

#released updates 
[update]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1

redhat beginer · 04-24-2005, 12:11 PM

Thanks guys, this has been helpful.

Here is what my yum.conf file looks like now

Quote:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
gpgcheck=1
tolerant=1
exactarch=1

[dries]
name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/dries/redhat/el3/en/i386/dries

I commanded as root yum update, seems to have worked, but found nothing to update (I think I had been able to update via the apt-get command, so I think its functioning properly).

From what I understand, its rude to download directly from a big site, and better to have that baseurl above, followed by a url for a mirror. Does anyone know a mirror for that site? Or is my thinking incorrect?