What modifies the file "redhat-release" ?

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 09:48, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 23:51, Satish Balay wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 May 2004, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My desktop system reports Fedora 2 after updating from rawhide prior to
> > > May 18.  Cool.
> > >
> > > However, my laptop may have not been so lucky.  If I were to point my
> > > laptop to rawhide now, I would have beyond Fedora 2, right?
> > > Looks like rawhide is back to full throttle.
> > 
> > Perhaps. You will get updated packages - don't know if there is an
> > updated fedora-release pacakge which changes the name back to
> > 'rawhide'
> > 
> > > How can I get my laptop on Fedora 2 without using the ISO distro?  I
> > > think the laptop is really close if not already there but redhat-release
> > > still reports 1.92.
> > 
> > point yum to FC2 (release) repository and do 'yum update' (or upgrade)
> Looks like my yum.conf is totally not correct.  I have also tried
> yum.conf.rpmnew
> ==========================================================================
> [root at matrix root]# yum update
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-2/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-2/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> ============================================================================
> How do I fix the above?

Okay, I used yum.conf.rpmnew and hardcoded the "$releasever" string to
"2"

After this, I ran:
yum  update

This downloaded and installed the following two packages:  
fedora-release-2-4.i386.rpm and comps.rpm

Now, I am set.   Thanks for the help.




 



> 
> 
> > 
> > > So, what modifies redhat-release?
> > 
> > When you (or yum) installs updated 'fedora-release' package. You could
> > check with:
> > 
> > rpm -qf /etc/redhat-release
> > 
> > Satish
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> Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>
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