> When I was upgrading some rpms from rawhide, my redhat-release rpm was > replaced by rawhide-release. > > This made the repository unaccessible (my original yum.conf): it didn't make your repository unaccessible DURING the upgrade. > [base] > name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/ > > After finally reading what yum said it was doing, I updated my config to: > > [base] > name=Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base > baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/ > > I just noticed on http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/repos/ that the > repository data has been changed to reflect the latter version. the default in the yum rpm is $releasever - the reason is that it works for severn2, 9, 8.0, etc etc etc. but for rawhide everything goes kinda pear-shaped for the version number. -sv
