On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, seth vidal wrote:
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)
OK, my bad, I knew that. Or at least you told me that before. I was
struggling for an explanation for why yumex kept trying to access files
from the 5 tree post-upgrade and half-remembered that distroverpkg was
where the version got set but remembered the wrong half. I guess that
the failure to clear the cache.conf below was the only problem then...
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
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