[Yum] after "yum install fedora-release", can't update yum

[Konstantin Riabitsev]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> that seemed to work fine, /etc/redhat-release now shows
>   
>   Fedora Core release 0.95 (Severn)
> 
> but when i tried to update yum with 
> 
> # yum update yum
> 
> i got
> 
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
>   apparently, the $releasever value in /etc/yum.conf is being replaced by 
> "Null".  what have i pooched here?

I believe support for /etc/redhat-release saying something other than
"Red Hat Linux" has only been added in 2.0.4. Your version returns
"Null" because it cannot parse the data in /etc/redhat-release.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin Riabitsev <icon at linux.duke.edu>
Linux at DUKE