On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:07 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > Dear list, > > I just used the standard install method (PXE booted to the usual install > GUI) to do an "upgrade" from a fairly clean (recently reinstalled) FC5 > laptop to FC6 and encountered a few minor problems (minor with > potentially serious consequences; I'm hoping that my system isn't > trashed and won't need a clean FC6 reinstall). > > a) The layering of the installation (or whatever) caused /etc/yum.conf > to contain > > distroverpkg=redhat-release > > (which was not installed). This is, I believe, supposed to be > overwritten with fedora-release (which WAS installed) so that it ends up > > distroverpkg=fedora-release > no, the first one is correct. distroverpkg looks for whatprovides redhat-release which is fedora-release on fedora, rhel-release on rhel, centos-release on centos (see a trend) > Consequently when I ran yum post install, I got a most strange mix of > updates and so on from FC 5 repo paths and many odd error messages. > However yum itself was relatively well behaved and once I did some > downloading of clean copies of the core rpms, some judicious rpm --erase > and reinstallation (in the right order) yum itself worked fine. > > b) yumex, however, continued to try to access FC 5 repos (with the > wrong checksums and near complete bombout) even AFTER yum.conf clearly > contained the right distroverpkg and was supposed to be trying to access > the 6 repos. I finally ran that problem down to here: one has to clear > yumex-mirror-cache.conf: Tim, you on this list? -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
