On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:08:46 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > 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. No, it was after the upgrade completed. Once yum deleted the installed RPM, it had to download the header file for that RPM from the base repository the very next time it ran. But since it could no longer find the respository, this meant yum was dead-in-the-water until I could remove the $releasever and $basearch variables from my yum.conf. > > [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. Can some one place the repository entries for severn on yum's web page? I've looked for these without luck, so I used rawhide instead. -Paul
