[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
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