On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 00:47 +0000, Darren Foster wrote: > 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) ---- which probably proves his assertion... I assumed that you merely did an 'rm /etc/*release' where it would appear that you did an 'rpm -e fedora-release' which meant that installing the fedora-release.noarch.rpm would have failed after I had you manually create /etc/fedora-release and /etc/redhat-release, and I was lazy and told you to '--force' the install where I should have told you to remove those files manually and then see if you could install the rpm without the '--force' option...but I didn't want to wear your patience out. Craig
