On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 02:26 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > >It seems that $basearch is expanding but $releasever is not? > > > >FC3 > >yum-2.2.0-1 (2.1.13 has the same behavior) > > let me guess - this is for a bare dir, right? > > in that case $releasever can't be resolved b/c there's no package > providing redhat-release in your installroot. Thanks, Seth!!! I installed the *release.i386.rpm into my installroot and things work now. Bob -- Bob Kashani http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome