Another YUM problem on FC6T1

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 14:11 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2006 05:30, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 01:07 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> > > In the repo files, it I substitute the number "5" for $releasever, it
> > > works
> > > just fine.  Where does yum (system) get the $releasever variable from?
> > > Is it
> > > being parsed properly?  I'm assuming "5" would be the correct value to
> > > use as
> > > it would be the truncated result of "5.9" and there are no "6's" in
> > > the list.
> >
> > The Fedora Release package delivered with Test 1 only enabled
> > development and extras-development which both point to a development/
> > dir rather than a release versioned dir.  Did you make a change?
> >
> > > When I attempt to do an echo of the $releasever, it returns nothing.
> >
> > It is figured out by looking at rpm query output of the package that
> > provides 'redhat-release'.  In fedora land, this is the fedora-release
> > package.
> 
> Thanks, Jim & Jesse, for setting me on the correct path.  Yes, I had just 
> copied my old FC5 repos over the FC6 ones as I had added other repos.  
> Restoring them fixed the problem.
> 
> Damn, can't yell at anyone else for problems I make.  Grrrr
> 
> When might release notes for FC6 become available?

We hope to have something concrete for FC 6 test 2. If you want to
contribute

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/ReleaseNotes/Process

Rahul