Re: Change Fedora Releases source

[Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Suvayu Ali wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 12:27:22AM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote:

>> I have both Beefy on a desktop machine & a laptop. On the desktop
>> variety, `yum update` works fine but on the laptop it's always throwing
>> errors (timing out, 401s, etc).
>>
> 
> These look like network issues to me. Exact error messages would help.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> What I'd like to do is check that the laptop is using the same sources
>> for Fedora Releases as the desktop & if, as I suspect, it's not, change
>> it so as not to encounter these errors.
>>
>> I've tried Googling on the subject but I'm just seeing results for
>> `/etc/yum.repos` which are not the source files with the relevant
>> information I'll need so if anyone can point me to the relevant config
>> files, I'd appreciate it.
>>
> 
> What do you mean by "sources"?  Are you using Debian terminology for
> repositories?  If yes, then "/etc/yum.repos.d/" is indeed the right
> place.
> 
> If it is indeed a repo mirror problem, the output of the following
> should help.
> 
> $ yum repolist
> 
> Check if you the "baseurl" line is commented out in the enabled repo
> files in /etc/yum.repos.d/.  For more info you can look at
> `man yum.conf'.

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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