On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > that seemed to work fine, /etc/redhat-release now shows > > Fedora Core release 0.95 (Severn) > > but when i tried to update yum with > > # yum update yum > > i got > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base > retrygrab() failed for: > > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info > Executing failover method > failover: out of servers to try > Error getting file > http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info > [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found > > apparently, the $releasever value in /etc/yum.conf is being replaced by > "Null". what have i pooched here? I believe support for /etc/redhat-release saying something other than "Red Hat Linux" has only been added in 2.0.4. Your version returns "Null" because it cannot parse the data in /etc/redhat-release. Regards, -- Konstantin Riabitsev <icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux@DUKE
