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

[Neal Becker]

seth vidal wrote:

> 
>> 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.
> 
> the file /etc/fedora-release is not AT ANY TIME consulted by tum.
>

OK I misread man yum.conf then.  In any case, the problem is gone.