Fedora 15 repositories
So i upgraded to Fedora 15, i must say its going to take a while to get
used it without compiz and general gnome 3 stuff.
First thing i noticed was as its beta there are no official repos.
in the main trunk, you have to use the development ones.
first off move all the files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ *.bak
( we will want to restore these later, when the proper repos come up! )
next
make a new file fedora.repo
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
Add the following
[fedora] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/ baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/x86_64/os/ #mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=1 #metadata_expire=7d gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch [fedora-debuginfo] name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/ baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/x86_64/debug/ #mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 metadata_expire=7d gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch [fedora-source] name=Fedora $releasever - Source failovermethod=priority #baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/ baseurl=http://fedora.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/fedora/linux/development/15/source/SRPMS/ #mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch enabled=0 metadata_expire=7d gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch
And work away as normal 
yum clean all yum update
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By Cyril, May 14, 2011 @ 12:52 am
I installed F15 a week ago, and I am still discovering it.
I have the officials repos and I receive the udates … so why do we need the development ones?
By Cyril, May 14, 2011 @ 2:02 am
Here is what I tried
su -
yum update
cp fedora.repo fedora.repo.bak
(I added the repos you suggested)
yum clean all
yum update
“No Packages marked for Update”
So I guess that it’s not needed, no ?
By Dave, May 14, 2011 @ 2:58 pm
some mirrors are slower to update than others
at the time of the writing of this, the mirror i used did not have updates
it now has updates, but no main or source, which makes compiling things kinda hard
i have now switched to http://rpmfusion.org/ mirrors.
By Dave, May 14, 2011 @ 3:01 pm
also switched to xfce
, but that’s a different story 
By Tom Coburn, May 27, 2011 @ 3:31 pm
I’m having trouble with the mirrors on F15 too downloading updates.
The updates are listed, just really slow. it’ll start out downloading like 5-10 bytes per second, then time out on each additional mirror.
problem is, I don’t know how to cancel the whole process without rebooting?
I tried closing out the terminal and reopening another terminal, but it said
yum was locked. how do I cancel yum running in memory even after closing a terminal shell? because in previous versions of Fedora all I had to do was close out the terminal and reload the terminal again
By Dave, May 27, 2011 @ 3:44 pm
ps -A | grep yum
sudo killall -9 yum
sudo killall -9 yumBackend.py