Yum Repositories for Fedora Core 8

March 1, 2009

I just spent a lot of time Googling around for the URLs of various Yum reposotories for Fedora Core 8.  Amazon has a number of basic Fedora Core 8 server AMIs available.  I later discovered that this release of the OS just reached end of life in January.  Nice.  For the life of me I couldn’t find a web page that just listed the basic repo information for Yum.  Here it is.

Place the following text as a file at /etc/yum.repos.d/base.repo:

[fedora]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

[fedora-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

2 Responses to “Yum Repositories for Fedora Core 8”

  1. Just what I was looking for!! :)

    Can’t believe they’ve marked werewolf obsolete so quickly, now we’re stuck between no updates or risking an upgrade on a live server…

    At least yum is working again, many thanks!

  2. It’s a great article, thanks. I’ve learned a lot. I’ll definitely subscribe to your rss feed. I couldn’t even imagine it is possible to find a blog stuffed with so much useful and interesting information.

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