On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 19:37 -0500, William Hooper wrote: > 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 > For the Record... if you continued to see the further posts you will have noticed it was resolved with the below command. rpm -ivh --force ftp://ftp.net.usf.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386//os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm (I don't generally like the 'force' option but in this case, it should be ok) Courtesy of Craig :-)
