Tony Nelson wrote:
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.
Looking at my more-or-less standard FC6 system with updates
applied shows that in
/etc/yum.conf
I have
destroverpkg=redhat-release
However,
rpm -q redhat-release
gives
package redhat-release is not installed
However,
rpm -qa | grep release
gives
fedora-release-notes-6-3
fedora-release-6-4
Would this represent a problem for an upgrade?
