Hello, I just wanted to add that I am getting a similar error message, which I thought was due to running through a proxy server. This is using Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 as Base server. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:yum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Welsh Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:43 PM To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified Subject: Re: [Yum] yum vs apt and releasever variable ----- Original Message ----- From: "seth vidal" <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 20 November 2003 13:06 Subject: Re: [Yum] yum vs apt and releasever variable > > 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? It's 2.0.4 > also what does: > rpm -q redhat-release > or > rpm -q fedora-release > return? redhat-release-9-3 package fedora-release is not installed _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum