[X2Go-User] Upgrading to nx-libs 3.5.99.1 on Fedora 24

Mike DePaulo mikedep333 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 21:57:43 CEST 2016


"https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/" is
not the URL to the yum repo. It is the URL to a webpage that describes
the yum repo. dnf config-manager cannot work with it.

Delete that file, and run:
dnf copr enable mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>      Ok, I have in /etc/yum.repos.d a file with:
>
> [copr.fedorainfracloud.org_coprs_mikedep333_nx-libs-3.6_]
> name=created by dnf config-manager from
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/
> baseurl=https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/
> enabled=1
>
>      But when I try to update it says:
>
> Failed to synchronize cache for repo
> 'copr.fedorainfracloud.org_coprs_mikedep333_nx-libs-3.6_', disabling.
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:05:05 ago on Wed Sep 28 12:49:01 2016.
> Dependencies resolved.
>
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> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Mike DePaulo wrote:
>
>> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:46:35 -0400
>> From: Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>
>> To: Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com>
>> Cc: "x2go-user at lists.x2go.org" <x2go-user at lists.x2go.org>
>> Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Upgrading to nx-libs 3.5.99.1 on Fedora 24
>>
>> Actually, I take that statement about those commands back. They would
>> probably work with this as the argument:
>>
>> https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/fedora-$releasever-$basearch/
>>
>> Although you would have to fill in the values of $releasever and
>> $basearch yourself.
>>
>> Still, the `dnf copr enable mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6` command is what you
>> want.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Mike DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The following URL:
>>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/
>>> Is not the URL to the repo. It is the web page / webGUI for the repo.
>>>
>>> As explained on the right of the page, try this command:
>>> dnf copr enable mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6
>>>
>>> I assume that those commands would work with "mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6"
>>> as the argument too.
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Robert Dinse <nanook at eskimo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      Hate to be a pest, I am sure this is something stupid I am doing
>>>> wrong.
>>>> I followed the instructions in the Fedora 24 manual for adding and
>>>> enabling
>>>> a repository:
>>>>
>>>>      dnf config-manager --add-repo
>>>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/
>>>>
>>>>      dnf config-manger --set-enabled
>>>> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mikedep333/nx-libs-3.6/
>>>>
>>>>      Both on one line, pico made it line wrap because it didn't fit in
>>>> the
>>>> e-mail.
>>>>
>>>>      The second command that is supposed to enable tells me no such
>>>> repository
>>>> even though sent after the first.
>>>>
>>>>      I've more or less come to the conclusion that 'dnf' stands for Does
>>>> Not
>>>> Function but that's an aside.
>>>>
>>>>      Is there a new trick to this?  I could not find the files to edit
>>>> directly, neither /etc/yum/repos.d nor /etc/dnf anything that remotely
>>>> looked
>>>> like a repository so I'm kind of stuck.
>>>
>>> < [...]
>>
>>
>


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