[Yum] 404, Server not found ?

[seth vidal]

> When I was upgrading some rpms from rawhide, my redhat-release rpm was
> replaced by rawhide-release.
> 
> This made the repository unaccessible (my original yum.conf):

it didn't make your repository unaccessible DURING the upgrade.


>   [base]
>   name=Red Hat Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
>   baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> After finally reading what yum said it was doing, I updated my config to:
> 
>   [base]
>   name=Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
>   baseurl=http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/9/i386/
> 
> I just noticed on http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/repos/ that the
> repository data has been changed to reflect the latter version.

the default in the yum rpm is $releasever - the reason is that it works
for severn2, 9, 8.0, etc etc etc.

but for rawhide everything goes kinda pear-shaped for the version
number.

-sv