[NTLUG:Discuss] FC2 Updates

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:43:02AM -0500, David Simmons wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> Help...I've updated a FC1 machine to FC2....and now I can't seem to get
> my repositories setup correctly.  I've installed the new APT for
> Fedora2...but when I do a apt-get update....it's still referencing the
> Fedora/1/i386 lists.
> 
While I generally avoid apt like the plague due to its inability to work
with multilib, you will find in rpms that things marked as config scripts
do not get upgraded.  the new one should be as /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmnew
or the like.

> In my yum.conf...I see where it's using variable names for version
> control...but can't see how/where to 'update' the version number....and
> shouldn't it do that automagically?

yum should be pulling the version number from /etc/fedora-release.
Unfortunately being so soon after the release, most mirrors are still
slammed, and Red Hat's servers are crawling.  The torrent tracker stopped
twice yesterday, and stats were reset after over 3TB of torrent downloads.  
You may wish to add a few more mirrors, or try again at late hours when
traffic might be lower.  just 'sleep 18000; yum -y update' before bed
(depending on how late that is, you might need to reduce that number from
5 hours).

Justin