On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:55:47 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:36 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote: > > I did as suggested: deleted the first line of yun.conf with vi and > > inserted [main] instead, but nothing changed. > > > > after <yum check-update> the following message appears: > > > > [peter@localhost peter]$ yum check-update > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base > > Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core > > Error - /var/cache/yum/dag/header.info cannot be found > > Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system. > > > > In vi my yum.conf looks like this: > > > > [main] > > cachedir=/var/cache/yum > > debuglevel=2 > > logfile=/var/log/yum.log > > pkgpolicy=newest > > distroverpkg=redhat-release > > Change redhat-release to fedora-release Why? redhat-release is just fine and the default, because: $ rpm --query --whatprovides redhat-release fedora-release-2-4 -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.9-1.2_FC2 loadavg: 0.32 0.42 0.19
