<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="midf84880b0050126010861b177e6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> A good reason why the release version should not be hard -coded in the config files. </pre> </blockquote> That's just what makes yum so flexible and suitable... You make a reference to the release version from a variable that is read from the system's own relase version files... Have you seen the config files for yum?? For example the URL of the mirrors list found in yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo: mirrorlist=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever">http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/updates-released-fc$releasever</a> Note the reference to $releasever? This WILL change as soon as you upgrade to FC4 accordingly. If read FC3 in there, you'd be trouble, but fortunately it does not. </body> </html>