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Updates for Red Hat Linux

ITC local Linux updates

ITC maintains a local update server for the Fedora Core distributions of Linux. Usually, the most recent and previous Fedora distributions have updates available. You can configure the server linuxload.itc.virginia.edu as the yum repository for the Fedora Core RPMs.

The following directives should be configured in files in /etc/yum.repos.d to use linuxload as your yum update server for Fedora 8.

In /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo: 

baseurl=http://linuxload.itc.virginia.edu/export/Fedora8/updates/$basearch/

In /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo: 

baseurl=http://linuxload.itc.virginia.edu/export/Fedora8/$basearch/Everything

In /etc/yum.repos.d/uva.repo: 

baseurl=http://linuxload.itc.virginia.edu/export/Fedora8/i386/uva

With these configurations in place, yum update will get the latest Fedora RPM updates and packages for your Fedora Linux system.

 

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