[nzlug] Livna repository for Fedora Core

[Patrick Connolly]

Somewhere about Fri, 11-May-2007 at 10:28AM +1200 (give or take), Nick Rout wrote:

|> Try again, at rpm.livna.org I now see:
|> 
|> "IMPORTANT NOTICE
|> 
|> rpm.livna.org just suffered a hard disk failure, and as its admin (me) is
|> not very clever, we lost (until i can review disks) the wiki.
|> The repository was backuped on a secondary server and you're actually
|> using it. Bugzilla is still up and running, and builder too. We apologize
|> for this and will do maximum in order to give you back r.l.o full
|> experience "
|> 
|> Its undated, but probably relevant. I also see the rpm's you are after.

Now that it's working, it's amazingly quick.  I spent hours trying and
retrying (days even).  Had I waited another day, there'd have been no
question.






|> 
|> 
|> On Thu, May 10, 2007 9:54 pm, Patrick Connolly wrote:
|> > I've been trying to use yum to get some updates from rpm.livna.org/
|> > for Fedora Core 6.
|> >
|> > First I tried rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm as per
|> > instructions I found here:
|> >
|> > http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/yum-config
|> >
|> > Nothing seems to happen.  It's not possible to ping rpm.livna.org but
|> > livna.org has a delay of only a bit more than what yahoo.com or
|> > google.com have.
|> >
|> > Going to http://livna.org/ brings up a page with minimal information
|> > with a link to rpm.livna.org/ which, it's no surprise, does nothing
|> > either.
|> >
|> > Does anyone know what could be going on?
|> >
|> > I found a mirror at http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/6/x86_64/
|> > which I gather will have the same rpms.  I see there is something
|> > called ivna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm.  So I tried
|> >
|> > rpm -Uvh
|> > http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/6/x86_64/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
|> >
|> > to get an error like this:
|> >
|> > error: skipping
|> > http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/6/x86_64/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
|> > -
|> > transfer failed - Unknown or unexpected error
|> > warning: _url_cache[0] 0x10b46c0 nrefs(1385470799) != 1 ( )
|> >
|> > Is that likely to indicate it's my machine or what I'm trying to
|> > connect to?
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> > TIA
|> >
|> > --
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   ___     Patrick Connolly      
 {~._.~}   
 _( Y )_          Good judgment comes from experience 
(:_~*~_:)         Experience comes from bad judgment    
 (_)-(_)