11.3.0 build 8 released, for XO-1.75, XO-1.5 and XO-1

Kevin Gordon kgordon420 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 2 20:59:51 EDT 2011


On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 02 2011, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> Yum doesn't work here on os8 for xo-1.75, it gives:
> >>
> >> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora.
> >>
> >> I discovered that "sed -ei 's/https/http/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo"
> >> fixes the problem; maybe we're not shipping the https cert or something.
> >
> > Dennis Gilmore worked it out on IRC -- my clock wasn't in the right
> > year, with the result that the SSL cert wasn't in its valid range.
> > (It's a shame the error from yum doesn't distinguish between a simple
> > 404 and an SSL transaction error.)
> >
> > So, if you see the above error and no-one else seems to be having
> > problems, check your system date.  :)
>
> Yes, I discovered this week we don't ship any form of ntpdate or means
> of setting the hw clock via ntp with the XO releases, the other thing
> was also dig/host/nslookup. Any reasons for missing those useful
> utils?
>
>
I have a bunch of little utilities I load up for new build testing right
after reflashing, if you are interested.  They are listed here:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Kevgor/Utilities_rpms_installed_from_USB_for_Testing_phase

Cheers

KG


Peter
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