On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:32:50 +0800, Sandgroper wrote:

> Hi people ,
>
> I have been trying to update my FC3 box and I find that I can get a list
> of the last updates , but I can't access them.
>
> I have used the original yum repo files and I get linked to the fedora
> web site which in turn redirects me to the mirror sites and it finds a
> site and lists all the available updates , but when I go to do a yum
> install , I can't do the update and it comes up with a error of :
>
> File Not Found 404 and/or a error of Unable To Open repomd.xml .
>
> I have also tried to explicitly enter the basueurls of mirror site into
> the repo files from the list supplied by fedoralegacy and I still get
> the same error message as like above.
>
> I have checked the repos of these mirror sites and the update files are
> listed.
>
> It could appear that I may have a outdated gpg , but I am not sure and I
> don't know if that I download it , it will cause problems with my
> system.
>
> Has anybody got any ideas or a workable set of yum repo files for FC3.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> PS Please don't say to upgrade to a later version of Fedora because I
> quite like FC3 with it's setup and I have it running really good and
> don't really want to go to a lot of trouble to install FC6
>

FC3 is no longer supported, there aren't any updates. Fedora is only
supported for a year, if you want to stay current you have to upgrade to
each new release (FC6 is the current release). You're other alternative
is to use a RHEL clone such as Scientific Linux or CentOS. RHEL is
supported for many years. I have SL 4.4 on one of my machines. I put a
custom kernel on it because the kernels in RHEL are hopelessly obsolete
but other wise it works fine. RHEL 5 has just come out, CentOS has a beta
of CentOS 5, Scientific Linux has an alpha, so now is probably not the
best time to do an upgrade unless you want to use the a RHEL 4.4 clone.
If you wait another month, I expect both CentOS and Scientific Linux will
have their RHEL 5 clones out by then. Your other alternative is to
upgrade to FC6.

"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
newsan.2007.03.25.12.39.52@yahoo.com...
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:32:50 +0800, Sandgroper wrote:
>
> FC3 is no longer supported, there aren't any updates. Fedora is only
> supported for a year, if you want to stay current you have to upgrade to
> each new release (FC6 is the current release). You're other alternative
> is to use a RHEL clone such as Scientific Linux or CentOS. RHEL is
> supported for many years. I have SL 4.4 on one of my machines. I put a
> custom kernel on it because the kernels in RHEL are hopelessly obsolete
> but other wise it works fine. RHEL 5 has just come out, CentOS has a beta
> of CentOS 5, Scientific Linux has an alpha, so now is probably not the
> best time to do an upgrade unless you want to use the a RHEL 4.4 clone.
> If you wait another month, I expect both CentOS and Scientific Linux will
> have their RHEL 5 clones out by then. Your other alternative is to
> upgrade to FC6.
>
>

Thanks for your reply ,
but what I really want to do is to update my FC3 box to the last lot of
updates that were available before the support for FC3 stopped.

I am also using CentOS 4.4 when I am doing my part time studies at a college
for Linux security and FC5 on my secondary machine at home , but I really
prefer my FC3 machine as I have set up it just right.


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