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:

  1. [fedora]
  2. name=Fedora $releasever – $basearch
  3. failovermethod=priority
  4. #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/os/
  5. mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch
  6. enabled=1
  7. gpgcheck=1
  8. gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
  9.  
  10. [fedora-debuginfo]
  11. name=Fedora $releasever – $basearch – Debug
  12. failovermethod=priority
  13. #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/$basearch/debug/
  14. mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-debug-$releasever&arch=$basearch
  15. enabled=0
  16. gpgcheck=1
  17. gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
  18.  
  19. [fedora-source]
  20. name=Fedora $releasever – Source
  21. failovermethod=priority
  22. #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/$releasever/Everything/source/SRPMS/
  23. mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-source-$releasever&arch=$basearch
  24. enabled=0
  25. gpgcheck=1
  26. gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
  27.  

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2 Responses to “Yum Repositories for Fedora Core 8”

  1. Neil
    April 8th, 2009 at 4:54 am

    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. Flex developer
    April 13th, 2009 at 5:25 am

    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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