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problems with yum (fedora 1)
Hey everyone!
I'm having some problems updating via yum with my Fedora Core 1 machine. It seems that the yum script looks for header information according to the core distribution number. And it seems that they (redhat, fedora, etc) has discontinued supporting Fedora 1. When I run `yum check-update` with my fedora 1 machine, it gives me some errors saying it can't find the header files. My fedora 2 machine runs fine. Same yum.conf. Here is the error I get: Code:
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)Can anyone tell me a way to make yum think I have a fedora 2 machine? I can't seem to track down the file that tells yum that it is a fedora 1 machine. thanks! |
Follow the directions at fedorafaq.org, there is an example (and well done) yum.conf file there for you to use.
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I got the yum.conf file from the fedorafaq.org web site
if you look at the yum.conf file, it gets a string called "$releasever". The problem is that the path http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/...rs/header.info (and the like) are not found. The problem is that the paths DO exist for http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/...rs/header.info (notice the "2") The only work-around that I've found is to replace all instances of '$releasever' with "2". not sure if this is going to break anything on my side... |
I see what you mean, but I don't run into the issues you are having with yum, $releasever translates into 2 for me just fine. Perhaps defining releasever at the top of the config file in [main] will do the trick for you.
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If you are using $releasaver..you HAVE to state the variable at the top as $releasever=1 or 2 depending on if its FC1 or FC2
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