[Yum] releasever "Null" for RHWS3

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jul 7 16:04:17 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 11:49, John Borwick wrote:
> Hello!  I hope you're doing well.  I've looked through the list 
> archives, and--while there are some hits for this problem in Fedora--I 
> haven't found any for Red Hat Workstation 3.
> 
> We're running several Red Hat Workstation 3 machines, with the following 
>   in their "redhat-release" file:
>    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon)
> 
> This gets put into $releasever as "Null".
> 
> Is there anything wrong on my end?  Should I just generate my own 
> "site-release" file with some other string?  If so, what should that 
> string be?
> 
> The machine's running yum 2.0.7, the latest I could find.

rpm -q --qf %{version} redhat-release

then look in your yum.conf for what distroverpkg is set to.

man yum.conf will tell you what distroverpkg is

-sv





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