[lsb-discuss] LSB 4.0 yum instructions and repository issues

[Wichmann, Mats D]

Craig Scott wrote:
> Hi guys. It looks like the instructions for setting up yum
> repositories for lsb packages need to be updated. They still refer to
> LSB 3.1, but the LSB 4.0 repo's seem to be there. The instructions I'm
> talking about are at the following:
> 
>    http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/RepositoryInfo
> 
> These still point people to the 3.1 repo at:
> 
>    http://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/repositories/3.1/yum
> 
> but the 4.0 repositories appear to now be available at:
> 
>    http://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/repositories/yum/lsb-4.0
> 
> The name of the repo file also appears to have been changed slightly
> to lsb-$LSBVER-$ARCH.repo instead of just lsb-$ARCH.repo.
> 
> 
> I did notice, however, that a number of the packages in the x86_64
> repo for 4.0 have access permission problems. I get a lot of
> permissions denied messages for most (all?) packages in the following
> location:
> 
>   
> ftp://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/repositories/yum/lsb-4.0/repo-x86_64/
> 
> Thus, while it *looks* like the LSB 4.0 repo is ready (these files
> have been there since March 2009 according to the file dates), maybe
> I'm jumping the gun a little. ;)

No, the 4.0 repos are completely screwed up, it's a side effect
of them having been moved due to a space problem, then
moved back, but things not being regenerated and fixed up.
It's been reported several times but doesn't get fixed.
There actually was a time when all that worked.  There are
actually updates to just about everything 4.0 in the queue to
move from release candidate to released, and I expect the repos
will get fixed at the same time.

As far as the out of date info, you probably had the bad luck
to look at an orphaned page, during a website transition a lot
of stuff ended up going stale and either needs attention or
killing.  Sorry about that!