Phil Hunter

I recently needed access to an older version Fedora and discovered that neither updates or the core packages would download and install using YUM.

To fix this (based on Fedora Core 5) I made the following modifications to these files:

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-core.repo

[core]
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/

File: /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo

[extras]
enabled=0

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

[updates]
baseurl=http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/5/i386/

Now when I execute “yum update” I get the last set of updates to be released for that particular version of Fedora and likewise I can use yum to also install new software packages.

phil Linux