So i upgraded to Fedora 15, i must say its going to take a while to get
used it without compiz and general gnome 3 stuff.
First thing i noticed was as its beta there are no official repos.
in the main trunk, you have to use the development ones.
first off move all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ *.bak
( we will want to restore these later, when the proper repos come up! )
next
make a new file fedora.repo
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repoAdd the following
[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/x86_64/os/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
#metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/x86_64/debug/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/source/SRPMS/
#mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearchAnd work away as normal 🙂
yum clean all
yum update
I installed F15 a week ago, and I am still discovering it.
I have the officials repos and I receive the udates … so why do we need the development ones?
Here is what I tried
su –
yum update
cp fedora.repo fedora.repo.bak
(I added the repos you suggested)
yum clean all
yum update
“No Packages marked for Update”
So I guess that it’s not needed, no ?
some mirrors are slower to update than others
at the time of the writing of this, the mirror i used did not have updates
it now has updates, but no main or source, which makes compiling things kinda hard 😉
i have now switched to http://rpmfusion.org/ mirrors.
also switched to xfce ;), but that’s a different story 😉
I’m having trouble with the mirrors on F15 too downloading updates.
The updates are listed, just really slow. it’ll start out downloading like 5-10 bytes per second, then time out on each additional mirror.
problem is, I don’t know how to cancel the whole process without rebooting?
I tried closing out the terminal and reopening another terminal, but it said
yum was locked. how do I cancel yum running in memory even after closing a terminal shell? because in previous versions of Fedora all I had to do was close out the terminal and reload the terminal again
ps -A | grep yum
sudo killall -9 yum
sudo killall -9 yumBackend.py