[Yum] yum vs apt and releasever variable

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Nov 20 17:23:33 UTC 2003


> 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

you need to get fedora-release installed.

alternatively, change $releasever to 1 in your yum.conf and run yum
install fedora-release.

then you can change it back

it's an artifact of the rhl9->Fc1 update

that will fix up your problems.

-sv


-sv





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