Fedora 7

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 7:54:53 pm James McDonald wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, James McDonald wrote:
> >> Tim Wunder wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 5:50:54 am James McDonald wrote:
> >>>> I installed my Fedora 7 from the 6.93 LIVE CD.
> >>>>
> >>>> It's still looking at the development repository. How do I setup the
> >>>> /etc/yum.repos.d/* files to make it all Fedora 7 without it installing
> >>>> bleeding edge rpm's that aren't all that stable (e.g. when I install
> >>>> XFCE I can't click the terminal menu option in Terminal because it
> >>>> causes an immediate exit of the term)
> >>>
> >>> The enabled repo's have an "enabled=1" line in them. Just set that to 0
> >>> and the repo will be disabled.
> >>
> >> Problem there is the base version being passed to yum is incorrect (you
> >> know how yum uses those variables in it's urls) so I'm wanting to
> >> somehow fix it so it's only asking the right question of the repository
> >>
> >> cat /etc/redhat-release
> >> Fedora release 7.89 (Rawhide)
> >
> > You need to update the fedora-release package, and that will take care of
> > everything.  Or rather, manually install the F7 versioned fedora-release
> > RPM, and then you'll be fine.
>
> I ended up doing just that. But while I was at the 7.89 version all
> these rpms with fc8 in their title were installed and I still have my
> XFCE problem.
>
> I'm not sure if it's a kernel or glib or something else.
>
> I can't see an easy way to downgrade the packages from development back
> to the standard F7. Does anyone know of a way to synchronize packages
> back to the latest for the repository you are looking at? Synaptic has
> the force version option. I haven't found that same option in yum
>
> Looks like I'm back to re-installing... I don't know if it will fix the
> XFCE problem however.
>

Perhaps using 'yum remove' followed by 'yum install' or the smart package 
manager you can get those downgraded. Do you have smart installed?

HTH, 
Tim

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