Systematic Upgrade from Fedora 1 -> 4

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jun 19 17:41:50 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 23:28 -0500, Tyler Nally wrote:
> Tyler Nally wrote:
> 
> > Because I don't have access to CD-ROM drive.
> > I only access it through the 'net.  And Fedora 1
> > is currently installed.
> 
> I figure that if all I have to do is change a setting
> somewhere so that YUM/Up2date will look to a different
> Fedora Core Version Source... and keep re-loading headers
> and keep updating them... (and repeating the steps as
> needed) then, eventually, I'll end up with the equivalent
> of a Fedora Core 4 machine.
> 
> But, what I'm not understanding is how YUM looks into
> the right path to get the updates when I see the following
> entries in /etc/yum.conf ....
> 
> [base]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/
> 
> [updates-released]
> name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/
> 
> ... where does $releasever and $basearch get their values?

It's explained in "man yum.conf". Look in the section on "VARIABLES".

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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