[Yum] yum vs apt and releasever variable
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Nov 20 13:06:37 UTC 2003
> I'm running Fedora Core 1. I have a single co-lo server. I updated to
> Fedora using apt, but now I'm wondering whether to stick with apt or use
> yum. I don't want to keep upgrading Fedora to the latest release;
> security updates are what concern me most from now on.
>
> Firstly, what are yum's advantages over apt, apart from coming with a
> useful cron script?
>
> Secondly, my yum.conf has the lines:
>
> [core]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
>
> The thing is, if I run "yum info", I get:
>
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-Null/headers/header.info
>
> In other words, $basearch is getting set but $releasever isn't.
>
> Again, apologies for the dumb questions.
what version of yum are you using?
also what does:
rpm -q redhat-release
or
rpm -q fedora-release
return?
-sv
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