You have the wrong distroverpkg tag in your yum.conf. It should be distroverpkg=fedora-release On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 11:12, Marshall Clark wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:55 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:47:03AM -0700, Marshall Clark wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 10:25 -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > > > > Read my message again and then try: > > > > > > > > baseurl=file:///home/mclark/x86_64updates/ > > > > > I already tried it your way the first time! I got Error 4! > > > Here is the output of the command, it goes past the file and on to > > ftp > > > servers. > > > > At least one of us is very confused. The baseurl above appears > > nowhere in either the output or yum.conf that you attached. > > > > -Michael > > > Sorry I copied it from the my mail machine instead of ftp-ing it over . > Also I may be using the wrong yum.conf but the error messages change > when I change /etc/yum.con > [main] > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > #cachedir=/home/mclark/x86_64updates > debuglevel=2 > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > pkgpolicy=newest > distroverpkg=redhat-release > tolerant=1 > exactarch=1 > retries=20 > > Contents of /etc/yum.conf > [base] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base > baseurl=file:///home/mclark/x86_64updates/ > #baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/x86_64/os/ > > [updates-released] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates > baseurl=ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/x86_64/ > > [updates-testing] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates > baseurl=ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.90/x8664/os/ > > [development] > name=Fedora Core $releasever - Development Tree > baseurl=ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/x86_64/ -- Sean O'Connell Office of Engineering Computing oconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 858.534.9716 (49716)