yellowdog-newbie Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19

[Thomas Kutz]

Thank you Derick. The URL's provided are an excellent reference.
If someone had never seen yum would they login to their own
machine as root and proceed to type yum with the various options
listed as a tutorial? When the website says "point to the correct 
server" what does that mean in English? How does one begin to 
use yum? 

that's my confusion. If I know the context I can apply the 
examples otherwise I end up with a vast amount of statistics and
other information concerning applications installed in my PS3. At
the root prompt I typed:

# yum info <return>

and got so many screens I gave up after about a thousand lines of
inventory of programs.

Where do I start if I want to upgrade from ver. 1127 to ver. 1208
of YellowDog?

Thomas Kutz

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   1. I want to update my PS3 from 1127 to 1208 w. yum -- how?
      (Thomas Kutz)
   2. Re: I want to update my PS3 from 1127 to 1208 w. yum -- how?
      (Derick Centeno)
From: Thomas Kutz <thomas2kutz at yahoo.com>
To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:32:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I want to update my PS3 from 1127 to 1208 w. yum -- how?

 
I am lost trying to find out how to use yum at all. Do I create 
/etc/yum files on my PS3? There are 3 example files
yellow-dog-bas.repo, yellow-dog-extras.repo, yellow-dog-updates.repo. 
Are these templates to be modified on
my machine and invoked by commands there? 

The section mentions "Pointing yum to YDL.net" . Where and how
does this "pointing" take place? 

I need a place to start. When I looked at http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum
I could not find anything that did not assume I already
knew.
thanks in advance for your help, 
Thomas
Kutz
           

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To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
 <yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:39:27 -0400
Subject: Re: I want to update my PS3 from 1127 to 1208 w. yum -- how?

 Hi Thomas:

Here is the place to start regarding yum:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/yum.shtml

The information on this page has been modified to address YDL 5 for the PS3.
Other information for the PS3 which could be useful to you is available 
here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/

Good Luck...

Thomas Kutz wrote:
> I am lost trying to find out how to use yum at all. Do I create 
> /etc/yum files on my PS3? There are 3 example files
> yellow-dog-bas.repo, yellow-dog-extras.repo, yellow-dog-updates.repo. 
> Are these templates to be modified on
> my machine and invoked by commands there? 
>
> The section mentions "Pointing yum to YDL.net " . Where and how
> does this "pointing" take place? 
>
> I need a place to start. When I looked at http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum
> I could not find anything that did not assume I already
> knew.
> thanks in advance for your help, 
> Thomas
> Kutz
>
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