Up2date Question

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Jun 20 12:53:42 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 00:34 +0200, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
>>Another funny thing is that up2date seems to be confused about the 
>>fedora-version when it shows the channel information.
>>For instance the channel-information of the fedora-unstable channel says:
>> http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/*2*/i386/RPMS.unstable
>>so it is thinking I am running fc2 instead of fc4.
>>Can somebody please help me on this? Yum is working fine so I can get 
>>updates, but I allways found the up2date alert-icon very practical.
> 
> 
> My work machine behaves like this, except it thinks I'm running FC3
> rather than FC2:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-June/msg02626.html
> 
> A workaround of changing $releasever to 4 fixes up2date for the moment,
> but the applet still doesn't work.

I've now raised a bug on this (up2date):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161071

Paul.




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