[Yum] upgrading to new redhat release

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 10:45, Steve Traylen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To upgrade from say 7.X to 8/9 is the best tactic just to 
> upgrade the redhat-release package by hand and then rely on 
> $releasever in yum.conf which I have.
> 
> Is there anything magic I can add on the command line to overide 
> the value $releasever obtained from the redhat-release package allowing
> me to miss that first step before running yum upgrade?

no. sorry.
-sv