Comments on: Fedora 8: select the repositories carefully

By: Casper van Dijk

Casper van Dijk — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:43:48 +0000

Good article, unfortunately it was already too late for me, which means I already installed the distro again

By: Saurabh Tiwari

Saurabh Tiwari — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:04:45 +0000

by mistake i have clicked on all the repositories can anyone please tell me what were the default checks. i want to restore the original settings again.
So any one having any info about this please mail to me on saurabhtiwaririshi@gmail.com

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:12:29 +0000

Thanks for the info, it was very helpful!

By: GenericHippy

GenericHippy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:46:13 +0000

I’ve been looking and looking–Can anyone tell me how to safely change the repository information so I can access nearer servers every time?
I tried on my own and, yes, didn’t make a backup of the .repo and had to re-install.

I did google for this, but my old eyes get tired after a few pages.

By: Alberto Paris

Alberto Paris — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:46:31 +0000

Good article, indeed. I also fell for the “let’s click on all repositories” game, and had to reinstall my FC8 system

I think Fedora should mark the “dangerous” repositories so you can only check them if you are ABSOLUTELY sure of what you are doing ….

I installed FC8, added all repositories, did a ‘yum update -y’ and went to sleep … This morning I had no graphic environment :~( … Tried to play around with the X configuration files, but until I found this article, I had no clue what was going on ….

If you are reading this, like for us, it is probably a little too late. (When I checked the packages installed belonging to fc9, I got 498 of them, … :S )

Oh, well ….. Happy reinstalling

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:49:42 +0000

Good article… unfortunately, I read it too late

Maybe a popup that said “Hey, dumba$$; are you really sure you want to hose your system” would have helped me see the way. Oh well… I’m reinstalling.