> I'm running Fedora Core 1. I have a single co-lo server. I updated to > Fedora using apt, but now I'm wondering whether to stick with apt or use > yum. I don't want to keep upgrading Fedora to the latest release; > security updates are what concern me most from now on. > > Firstly, what are yum's advantages over apt, apart from coming with a > useful cron script? > > Secondly, my yum.conf has the lines: > > [core] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever > > The thing is, if I run "yum info", I get: > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-Null/headers/header.info > > In other words, $basearch is getting set but $releasever isn't. > > Again, apologies for the dumb questions. what version of yum are you using? also what does: rpm -q redhat-release or rpm -q fedora-release return? -sv
