On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:08 AM, James Antill <james-yum@xxxxxxx> wrote: > This is the main problem, $releasever is set by looking in the rpmdb > and seeing what provides redhat-release. However with the first run > of --installroot you don't have an rpmdb, and so $releasever is unset. > With newer versions of yum you can use --releasever=/ etc. but for > older versions of yum you'll have to edit all your .repo files and > manually change the $releasever to something. Thank you for the reply, manually editing worked. Is there any way I can initialize the rpmdb with the correct redhat-release, or avoid the need to manually edit the .repo files? Thanks, -- Chad _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum