At 12:35 PM -0300 6/4/07, John DeDourek wrote: >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? Good point. It matches what I have. I see that it is done through a "provides", and "rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release" returns fedora-release. So it's a "virtual package" name. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
