[Yum] --installroot error

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:16 -0800, Bob Kashani wrote:
>I'm getting and error when using --installroot:
>
>Setting up Group Process
>Setting up Repos
>http://apt.sw.be/fedora/Null/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4]
>IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>Trying other mirror.
>Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
>failure: repodata/repomd.xml from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to
>try.
>
>Here is my repo entry:
>
>[dag]
>name=Dag
>baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
>
>It seems that $basearch is expanding but $releasever is not?
>
>FC3
>yum-2.2.0-1 (2.1.13 has the same behavior)

let me guess - this is for a bare dir, right?

in that case $releasever can't be resolved b/c there's no package
providing redhat-release in your installroot.

-sv