RPM is totally fubar'd after hitting some kind of time-warp?

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Sep 30 13:04:56 UTC 2003


On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, KSC wrote:

> Whoa... That is weird...
> 
> After installing 0.94, everything seemed peachy. I then installed
> various packages via yum, and compiled additional src.rpms. Proceeded
> to build vanilla 2.6.0-test6 and the nvidia module.

> Created the directory to see what that would get me, and then I notice
> that yum reported 404 errors due to it believing $releasever is 9.0.93
> 
> Ran up2date and it also thought the system was 9.0.93.
> 
> cat /etc/redhat-release reports Fedora Core release 0.94 (Severn)
> 
> rpm -q redhat-release reported not-installed. So I did a rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> rpm now reports redhat-release-9.0.93-4. What?
> 
> It is reporting all kinds of old 9.0.93 packages, although the new
> packages are installed, and during 0.94 install, I told it to format
> everything but my separate /home partition.
> 
> How the heck did it pull 9.0.93 packages out of its butt when the
> partitions were supposedly formatted? Hit a glitch in the space-time
> continuum?

Is your yum configuration file, /etc/yum.conf, set up correctly?  Perhaps 
it is listing a 9.0.93 repository.  This could explain why you're getting 
packages mixed from both versions. 

--Jeremy

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