Yum troubles

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:55:47 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 09:36 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> > I did as suggested: deleted the first line of yun.conf with vi and 
> > inserted [main] instead, but nothing changed.
> > 
> > after <yum check-update> the following message appears:
> > 
> > [peter at localhost peter]$ yum check-update
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
> > Server: Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core
> > Error - /var/cache/yum/dag/header.info cannot be found
> > Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.
> > 
> > In vi my yum.conf looks like this:
> > 
> > [main]
> > cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> > debuglevel=2
> > logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> > pkgpolicy=newest
> > distroverpkg=redhat-release
> 
> Change redhat-release to fedora-release

Why? redhat-release is just fine and the default, because:

$ rpm --query --whatprovides redhat-release
fedora-release-2-4

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Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.9-1.2_FC2
loadavg: 0.32 0.42 0.19