On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > sorry for being such a pain, but in order to get the most recent > RPMs, i followed previous advice and ran > > # yum install fedora-release > > 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? in yum 2.0.4 this is solved. the gist is this: $releasever is the version of the package specified in distroverpkg in [main] in the yum.conf this package defaults to redhat-release. now redhat-release has been removed in fedora core 0.95 so you need to set distroverpkg=fedora-release and then presto it will work. alternatively upgrade to yum-2.0.4 and you'll find that it works better. -sv
