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It could appear that I may have a outdated gpg , but I am not sure and I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

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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 It could appear that I may have a outdated gpg , but I am not sure and I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.

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"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:55:13 +0800, Sandgroper wrote:

> "General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2007.03.25.12.39.52@yahoo.com... 
> 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.
>
>

I don't think there are any FC3 servers running anymore, or FC4 for that
matter. The Fedora legacy project died a while ago so no one is providing
updates for old Fedoras. Redhat makes their money off of RHEL. The big
differentiator between Fedora and RHEL is that they provide support for
RHEL for many years, they kill off Fedora releases after a year. If they
didn't kill off Fedoras quickly there wouldn't be much of an incentive to
pay them for RHEL.

You could try upgrading your FC3 installation to FC6, if you haven't
added a lot of third party packages it might work. You will have better
luck with a fresh FC6 installation. You can copy the few /etc files that
you've modified from the old FC3 installation to the new FC6
installation. If you need some packages that FC3 had which FC6 doesn't,
such as Motif, then you should install SL or CentOS 4.4. FC3 and RHEL 4
are practically the same.  You'll have to do some work to get back to
where you were, but that's the price of using Fedora.

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