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@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@localhost ~]# echo "Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)" >> >>> /etc/fedora-release >>> >> [root@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). -- William Hooper
