Fedora 7

[James McDonald]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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
>   
I have never heard of smart except in relation to goal setting...

specific , manageable, achievable, realistic timed. or some such

no wait yum install smart works I'll get back to you.