From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I recently upgraded from fc3 to fc4 and then used up2date to get recent updates. I want to mount an ntfs disk so I need to get the kernel source to get the ntfs module. When I try 'up2date --get-source kernel' it crashes with this output: An error has occurred: exceptions.TypeError See /var/log/up2date for more information A look at /var/log/up2date leads me to: /usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rpmSource.py", line 241 where I find it is trying to open file: /var/spool/up2date/updates-released-all.1000 This file does not exist. So the attempt to read fails. I do seem to have similar,old files for fc3 and fc2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.4.23-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.up2date --get-source kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: An error has occurred: exceptions.TypeError See /var/log/up2date for more information Expected Results: kernel source rpm downloaded. Additional info: If this doesn't work, how should I get the source? Do I have to download the source rpm iso images? I hope not since the kernel is not upgraded to the latest version.
Is there some way to force up2date to generate the missing file?
You can download it manualy from any fedora mirror. Example from: http://ftp.hostrino.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/
Comment #2 misses the point. If up2date provides a --get-source option, shouldn't it actually work? Yes, I can fetch the update from a mirror, but if I've got several repos in my up2date config, then I have to figure out which repo the package belongs to before I can identify the correct URL. Note that the --get option also doesn't work, presumably because of the same missing file.
up2date was replaced by pirut and put (package pirut) as of FC5. Only FC5 and FC6 are currently fully supported; FC3 and FC4 are supported for security fixes only. If this bug occurs in FC3 or FC4 and is a security bug, please change the product to Fedora Extras and the version to match. If you can verify that the bug exists in RHEL as well, please change the product and version appropriately. The codebase for pirut and pup is quite different, but if a similar bug exists in pirut and pup in FC5 or FC6, please change the product to pirut and the version appropriately and update the bug report. We apologize that the bug was not fixed before now. The status will be changed to NEEDINFO, and if the bug is not updated with evidence that it is a security bug or a bug that affects RHEL, it will be closed.
Closing per previous message.