Yum

[William Hooper]

Craig White wrote:
>>> I'm not convinced that this is actually a fedora install.
>>>
>>>
>>> You can replace this by simply (as root)
>>>
>>>
>>> echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)" > /etc/fedora-release ln -s
>>> /etc/fedora-release /etc/redhat-release
>>>
>>>
>>> but first, let's confirm that this is fedora core 5 install
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>>
>>
>> root at localhost ~]# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain
>> 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 Sat Oct 14 16:59:26 EDT
>> 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> And I've done the below.
>>
>>
>> [root at localhost ~]# echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)"
>>
>>> /etc/fedora-release
>>>
>> [root at localhost ~]# ln -s /etc/fedora-release /etc/redhat-release
>>
>>
>> Has this made it any clearer to you, because I'm a little lost now.
>>
> ----
> OK - yum should work now

For the record, this didn't make yum work because yum doesn't look at the
contents (or existence) of the fedora-release file.  Instead, it looks at
the RPM db for the version of the package fedora-release (or whatever
"distroverpkg" is set for).

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William Hooper