> 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. > but this is because you upgraded to rawhide which doesn't exactly have a useful version number. If you had just been using severn the yum.conf file would have worked just fine: severn == 0.94 basearch stays the same: > 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. added it as fedora-core-test2-0.94 -sv