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Ok, After a fresh install of FedoraCore3, I always install ALL packages in the Anaconda option because I have enough system resources and use most of the packages, I would like to update the packages mainly like xorg and alsa and gtk and all the other ones i care about. I have used the Red Hat Linux Network pacvkage that pops up with an red ! but it seems like through all the reformats that up2date RHLN has only worked once or twice for updating packages and only once for updating the kernel. I was wondering if its a bad idea to do
yum update
instead of secifiying a package name and just have it update all packages. Is this a bad decision? Wheter it be due to possible problems down the road or now or what? Or is it absoluitely fine to do that, right after a reformat?
along with other repositories that say fedoratesting and fedora unstable... am I able to comment out all of the testing and unstable lines as if i do "yum update" im not interested in downloading any unstable or testing versions but only the stable releases.... Or doesnt this relate to it? So I would just comment out like
Help on either question is greatly appreciated. Third and final question for now, the yum.conf at FedoraFaq contains many mirrors so would you recommend using this as sometimes the main networks can be down? Thanks
If you put things into the /etc/yum.conf file, you can just comment out the parts which you don't want to get used like testing or development.
If you use the default setup in fc3, there is a directory called /etc/yum.repos.d which has individual files for the different sections. You can add others like I have for livina.repo and fedora-pre-extras.repo ...
fedora-devel.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-pre-extras.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo
fedora.repo
livna.repo
In those individual files there usually is a mirror list statement which causes yum to try another site if there is a network failure.... mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
Also, each file is used or not used by the enabled=? switch. Where enabled=1 means that you do want to use that file ( like testing or devel ) and enabled=0 means that you don't want to use it.
i think ill just comment out the testing and unstable from the yum.conf... Thanks. So does anyone see any problem in just doing yum update to update everything
ok, i plan on reformatting tommorrow and ill download the yum.conf from FedoraFaq and then comment out the stuff except the stable stuff (if theres any other tweaks I should make, please post it) and then do
yum update
I hope it all goes well... Any ideas how long it should take on a standard ADSL line? I have no idea of the size of all the upgrades so I cant make a guess.
If I understand you correctly, you are going to do a normal install of fc3 then run the yum update? If so, that is no problem and the first time you run yum update, it may take 10 minutes ( can't remember ) but after that, each run only takes a minute or so.
Like I said, the default fc3 setup for yum works and you don't need to add anything to the /etc/yum.conf unless you prefer to do it that way.
the mirror list is huge and this line causes yum to try another mirror if there is a problem with one of them. mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever
A mirrorlist line similar to that one is in each of the files which are in /etc/yum.repos.d
If you would rather put those lines in /etc/yum.conf here they are. Then you can comment out what you don't want.
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
[development]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
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