[Yum] yum vs apt and releasever variable

[Paul Welsh]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "seth vidal" <skvidal at phy.duke.edu>
To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu>
Sent: 20 November 2003 13:06
Subject: Re: [Yum] yum vs apt and releasever variable


> > 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?

It's 2.0.4

> also what does:
>  rpm -q redhat-release
> or
>  rpm -q fedora-release
> return?

redhat-release-9-3
package fedora-release is not installed