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up2date on my RH72 machine doesn't work. It says:

# up2date -u
Error communicating with server.  The message was:

Error Message:
    Your account does not have access to any channels matching (release='7.2', arch='alpha')
Error Class Code: 19
Error Class Info:
     Architecture and OS version combination is not supported.
     If you have a registration number, please register with it
     first at http://www.redhat.com/now and then try again.
Explanation:
     An error has occurred while processing your request. If this problem

     If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
     details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
     details on how to reproduce this problem.

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I know RH72 comes from Compaq, not from RedHat. What should I change
in the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date file to get it working? Thanks for
your help,

   --georg

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This is indeed the case because Red Hat does not directly supports that
release.  See

  http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat

for details and

  http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat/download.html

for a list of official mirrors.  There is one with updates in Germany. :-)

Warning: binutils-2.11.90.0.27-0.06.alpha.rpm from updates, which still
seem to be present on a German mirror but it was withdrawn from the
main site, are broken.

   Michal

he's right, you have to roll over to Compaq... From what I read during the
installation, they pretty much redid a lot of RedHat 7.2 and included a lot
of binaries that were never released/ported by Redhat such as Nautilis,
Gnome 1.4, etc.

(release='7.2', arch='alpha')

Quote:

> This is indeed the case because Red Hat does not directly supports that
> release.  See

>   http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat

> for details and

>   http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat/download.html

> for a list of official mirrors.  There is one with updates in Germany. :-)

> Warning: binutils-2.11.90.0.27-0.06.alpha.rpm from updates, which still
> seem to be present on a German mirror but it was withdrawn from the
> main site, are broken.

>    Michal

Quote:> This is indeed the case because Red Hat does not directly supports that
> release.  See

>   http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat

> for details and

>   http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat/download.html

> for a list of official mirrors.  There is one with updates in Germany. :-)

ftp://alpha.crl.dec.com/pub/linux/redhat/7.2-alpha/updates/rpms/alpha/
often isn't reachable for me. And more importantly, I cannot sort the
entries on this site nor those on
ftp://ftp2.compaq.com/pub/linux/RedHat/7.2-alpha/updates/rpms/alpha/
by date - at least not with the standard ftp commands "ls -lt" or "dir
-t". This gets more and more important the longer the list of updates
gets. Its difficult and error prone to scan that alphabetically sorted
list by hand for new updates. That was why I asked how I can get
up2date to work with one of those 2 update servers.

Quote:> Warning: binutils-2.11.90.0.27-0.06.alpha.rpm from updates, which still
> seem to be present on a German mirror but it was withdrawn from the
> main site, are broken.

So what's the better (more correct) version of the binutils rpm and where
can I get it?

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If you have some disk space to spare, one solution is to use wget
to pull all the rpms onto local disk.  After the first pull, you
can do incremental pull to get only the new ones.  Then, you can
use "ls -lt" to sort the local copies by date.

Robert Riches

Eh?  Just tried 'dir -rt' on the second server, in "updates", and got:

----------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers         1712 Mar 22  2002 HP-RPM-GPG-KEY
d---------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers            0 Jul 23 12:53 rpms
----------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers         1910 Aug 14 18:53 RPM-GPG-KEY
----------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers          830 Aug 29 16:24 mirroring-policy
----------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers          382 Sep  8 23:23 release-notes
----------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers          799 Sep 14 22:06 VALIDATION
----------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers        17210 Sep 16 14:33 changelog
d---------   1 ftpuser  ftpusers            0 Sep 20 02:26 srpms

so it seems to work just fine.

Don't pay attention to permits.  This is not a Unix server and sometimes
behaves in a brain-damaged manner (it can bump you off suddenly and
without warning, for example) but most of the time it works well enough.

Quote:> This gets more and more important the longer the list of updates
> gets. Its difficult and error prone to scan that alphabetically sorted
> list by hand for new updates. That was why I asked how I can get
> up2date to work with one of those 2 update servers.

I suggested rather that with .de address you should likely use

http://rh-axp.lapavoni.de/hp-updates/

It does not say on a Compaq web page (it was announced on a mailing
list) but rh-axp.lapavoni.de provides also an anonymous rsync service.
Like this:
$ rsync rh-axp.lapavoni.de::
rh-axp          Redhat 7.2 for Alpha
aurora          aurora (rhl on sparc)

If you will maintain an "exclude list" of things you do NOT want
to retrieve then getting a new stuff can be rather automatic even
without keeping locally a full copy of updates.  Do that from cron
in the middle of the night and things will be smooth.

Quote:>> Warning: binutils-2.11.90.0.27-0.06.alpha.rpm from updates, which still
>> seem to be present on a German mirror but it was withdrawn from the
>> main site, are broken.

> So what's the better (more correct) version of the binutils rpm and where
> can I get it?

You have it already in a distribution.  An update fixed something not
that crucial but, unfortunately, broke thoroughly something else.
Probably another release will show up pretty soon.  This warning because
"lapavoni" still carried a messed up version the last time I looked.

  Michal

Yeah, looks like they put linux updates on a Microsoft based ftp server.
I was able to access and get files without a problem, though.

Quote:>I know RH72 comes from Compaq,

Any idea how to get Alpha RH 7.2 in the UK ?

I followed the links on the Compaq www site but it only seemed to take
me to sales of RH 7.1.

Cheers, J/.
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