yum broken by 0.95

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 12:36:02 UTC 2003


On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Neal D. Becker wrote:

> After a clean install of 0.95, the default yum.conf seems broken.  It appears 
> that $releasever is not set, because the value is "Null".  Sorry, I am not at 
> the machine currently, so I can't send the exact error message, but running 
> yum it tries to connect to http://.../Null/... where Null appears in place of 
> $releasever from /etc/yum.conf.

In yum.conf, change the 'distroverpkg' value to 'fedora-release'.

-- Elliot
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