At 2:41 AM -0800 6/3/07, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: >Joachim Backes wrote: >> Updated my FC6 / x86_64 by the new F7 DVD. And after this, I wanted to >> run the first "yum update", but it failed: >> >> yum update >> Loading "installonlyn" plugin >> Setting up Update Process >> Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: updates >> >> Can somebody help? >I ran into this same problem when I upgraded from FC6 to F7. Initially I >thought it was heavy traffic to the yum servers, but I decided to watch >the transaction in Wireshark just to be sure... What you'll probably see >is that yum is reporting your system as fedora-6 instead of 7, and that >this is causing an error... I was unable to solve this by tinkering, and >decided to do a clean install since I didn't have much data on the >machine anyway. I hope you have better luck than I did. The release number comes from the version of the package named in distroverpkg in /etc/yum.conf, normally redhat-release, but any package with the desired version number will do. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
