Yum troubles

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 19 11:55:54 UTC 2004


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

Yes, you're right. I misunderstood what yum was doing, assuming that:

$ rpm -q redhat-release
package redhat-release is not installed

would cause problems, but it doesn't.

Paul.




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