[Dextrose] yum error on xo-1.75 (dx build)

[Jerry Vonau]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 12:13 -0500, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Rafael Ortiz
> <rafael at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>
>         wrote:
>                 On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:31 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
>                 > On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 11:06 -0500, Rafael Ortiz
>                 wrote:
>                 > >
>                 > >
>                 
>                 < snip >
>                 > > still it gives me:
>                 > >
>                 > >
>                 > >  sudo yum update
>                 > > dextrose                                      |
>                  951 B     00:00
>                 > > dextrose-freeworld                            |
>                  951 B     00:00
>                 > > dextrose-next                                 |
>                  951 B     00:00
>                 > >
>                 http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Everything/arm/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 : http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Everything/arm/os/repodata/repomd.xml
>                 > > Trying other mirror.
>                 > > Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata
>                 (repomd.xml) for
>                 > > repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try
>                 again
>                 >
>                 > Have a look at:
>                 >
>                 http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Everything/
>                 >
>                 > there is on arm for F14, what other repo files are
>                 present?
>                 >
>                 
>                 
>         
>         
>         these are my repos
>         
>         
>          dextrose-freeworld.repo      fedora-updates.repo
>         dextrose-next.repo           fedora-updates-testing.repo
>         dextrose.repo                olpc-f14.repo
>         fedora.repo                  olpc-f14-xo1.75.repo
>          
>                 
>                 Think you should be able to do: sudo yum
>                 --disablerepo=fedora* update
>         
>         
>         I should disable all fedora repos then. :/.
>         
> 
> 
> Disabling fedora repos, makes possible to init the update but it
> doesn't finish because of this error: 
> 
> 
> Total size: 16 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> Running rpm_check_debug
> Running Transaction Test
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /boot/olpc.fth from install of
> kernel-3.0.19_xo1.75-20120214.2038.olpc.6ac727b.armv7l conflicts with
> file from package
> kernel-3.0.0_xo1.75-20120118.1854.olpc.b2845e6.armv7l
> 

Yum will not work with a kernel update, you need to download the kernel
rpm and install it with "rpm -ivh --force <path_to>/kern*" Then see:
http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Kernel Installing kernel RPMs.  
There should be a /boot/README on the XO that has all the details.

Jerry