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Operating Systems Linux Fedora Yum repository not working in Fedora 16 Post 302994197 by drysdalk on Monday 20th of March 2017 10:21:51 AM
Old 03-20-2017
Hi,

I don't think you've quite done that right, no. For starters, each section will need a different baseurl since each section is used for different things, so you can't use the same URL for everything. Also if you are going to be hard-coding it like this, you'll also want to comment out the mirrorlist lines.

So for example, for the main [fedora] section, I imagine you want something like this:

baseurl=http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fedora/archive/fedora/linux/releases/16/Everything/x86_64/os/

since that's apparently the URL that it was looking for before you made this modification, going by the other commented-out baseurl line that's there. You'll need to similarly change the lines in the other sections to the correct appropriate URL, which you can get from looking at what was there before.

Again though, there's a bigger question here: what are you actually hoping to do ? What is the yum command that you're ultimately hoping to run after you've done all your cleaning and listing ? Which package(s) do you need to install ?

It's also worth pointing out that you can just use that first URL I gave you (the one that directly links to the package directory) do download and install any RPMs you might require, if you can't get your Yum config working in the end.

As for whether you should use Fedora 16: well, no. Absolutely not, if you have any choice at all. It's entirely obsolete, and hasn't received any updates in almost four years, so is bound to be full of countless security holes by now. If you want to know which versions of Fedora are still actively supported and/or receiving updates, then you can check the Wikipedia page on Fedora's version history here.

Fedora version history - Wikipedia

So if you're going to be using Fedora for whatever it is you're wanting to do, you definitely want to be using a version that's still actively supported and has a fair while left in its lifecycle if you possibly can.
 

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repodiff(1)															       repodiff(1)

NAME
repodiff - list differences between two or more Yum repositories SYNOPSIS
repodiff --old=old_repo_baseurl --new=new_repo_baseurl DESCRIPTION
repodiff is a program which will list differences between two sets of repositories. Note that by default only source packages are com- pared. GENERAL OPTIONS
--old, -o Add a repo. as an old repo. Note that if you prefix the url with "mirror:" then the following url is treated as a mirror and not a baseurl. --new, -n Add a repo. as an new repo. Note that if you prefix the url with "mirror:" then the following url is treated as a mirror and not a baseurl. --archlist, -a Add architectures to change the default from just comparing source packages. Note that if you want the same as a native "x86_64" architecture machine you just need to pass "x86_64" (this is different from earlier versions where you needed to specify "x86_64,athlon,i686,i586,i486,i386,noarch" and you still got "src"). --size, -s Output additional data about the size of the changes. --compare-arch Normally packages are just compared based on their name, this flag makes the comparison also use the arch. So foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 are different. --simple Output a simple one line message for modified packages. --downgrade Split the data for modified packages between upgraded and downgraded packages. EXAMPLES
Compare source pkgs in two local repos: repodiff --old=/tmp/repo-old --new=/tmp/repo-new Compare x86_64 compat. binary pkgs in two remote repos, and two local one: repodiff -a x86_64 --old=http://example.com/repo1-old --old=/tmp/repo-old --new=http://example.com/repo1-new --new=/tmp/repo-new Compare x86_64 compat. binary pkgs, but also compare arch: repodiff -a x86_64 --compare-arch --old=http://example.com/repo1-old --old=/tmp/repo-old --new=http://example.com/repo1-new --new=/tmp/repo-new Compare two releases of Fedora (15 => 16): repodiff --old='mirror:https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-15&arch=i386' --new='mirror:https://mir- rors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-16&arch=i386' --size --simple --downgrade SEE ALSO
yum.conf (5) http://yum.baseurl.org/ AUTHORS
See the Authors file included with this program. BUGS
There are of course no bugs, but should you find any, you should first consult the FAQ section on http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq and if unsuccessful in finding a resolution contact the mailing list: yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org. To file a bug use http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs. James Antill 21 October 2008 repodiff(1)
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