[Yum] question: RH9 to fedora upgrade

Michael Stenner mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
Fri Mar 5 16:28:31 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:51:29PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:44 -0800, Avinash Shetty (ashetty) wrote:
> 
> > Seth, 
> > I tried this but when I try to do a yum update it gets the value
> of $releasever to NULL so my update fails.
> 
> so just set $releasever to 1 or 9 or whatever it's supposed to be
> 
> $releasever is just a convenience variable.

You can also manually install the fedora-release package first.
That's where (some of) these variables get set from.  I did this very
same thing just last night.

					-Michael

-- 
  Michael D. Stenner                            mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
  ECE Department, the University of Arizona                 520-626-1619
  1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104                 ECE 524G



More information about the Yum mailing list