On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:17, David Relson wrote: > With yum-2.0.4 running on my Mandrake 9.2 system, in /etc/yum.conf I > have: > > distroverpkg=mandrake-release > > /etc/mandrake-release is: > > Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 > > When I run "yum list base", it has 9.2 for $releasever (correct) and > i386 for $basearch (incorrect). As a guess, it's a parsing problem, but > I don't really know. Is this my error or yours? no it's not. i386 is the basearch from i586 - meaning ix86 systems: if you want the arch of your system then use $arch. -sv