yum update trouble Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base

[Neal D. Becker]

seth vidal wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 13:36, Neal D. Becker wrote:
>> I'm stumped.  I have 2 machines.  One (i386) is updating fine from
>> rawhide
>> -> FC3.  The other x86_64 is saying:
>> 
>> yum update
>> Setting up Update Process
>> Setting up Repo:  base
>> Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
>> 
>> In /etc/repos.d:
>> fedora.repo:
>> [base]
>> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
>>
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
>>
mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
> 
> 
> try editing the last line there to:
> mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-3
> 
> I'm betting your release-ver is wrong:
> 
> rpm -q fedora-release
> 
> -sv
> 
> 

I had hand-edited /etc/fedora-release, but maybe there was some typo.  I
don't know.  I grabbed fedora-release RPM, updated, mv'd
all /etc/repos.d/*.rpmnew over originals, then everything is working.