Upgraded to Fedora 8 bad repositories

[sparek]

I just upgraded from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8 using the Fedora 8 installation DVD. My problem now is that I cannot find any yum repositories for Fedora 8. The base repository in my yum.conf file only goes to Fedora 6. Can anyone help? Is there just a basic yum.conf file that I can use?

/etc/yum.conf:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by sparek

I just upgraded from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8 using the Fedora 8 installation DVD. My problem now is that I cannot find any yum repositories for Fedora 8. The base repository in my yum.conf file only goes to Fedora 6. Can anyone help? Is there just a basic yum.conf file that I can use?

/etc/yum.conf:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/

[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/

[extras]
name=Fedora Extras - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras

Change yum.conf to this

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800
installonly_limit=2

# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

Then install this

su
rpm -Uvh http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/fedora-release-8-5.noarch.rpm

[SlowJet]

And then do this
setenforce 0
yum update
touch /.autorelabel
reboot

SJ

[sparek]

Thanks. That worked, I'm having trouble getting my sound to work, but I will open a new thread for that problem.

Thanks for your help with this.

[Zotter]

You went from F6 to F8 - and it worked??

wow - I wouldn't have expected that. Recently took an old FC4 box to F8 - but went through FC5 F6 and F7 along the way. That was fuzzy enough - but it worked. Would never have risked skipping a major. Good to know for next time.

[sparek]

I had done it once before, maybe FC4 to FC6, I can't remember. I had some trouble getting sound to work with this upgrade, but after I worked on that I seem to recall having a similar problem when I last did an upgrade like this.

It should be noted that I used the FC8 installation dvd to do the upgrade, I didn't do the upgrade through yum. Not sure if that makes any difference or not. Thats also how I did my previous upgrade attempt.