F8 -> F9 rpms -- Complete bollocks.

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 16:20:00 UTC 2008


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:11:20 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:50:26 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > 
> >> Here's what I see.  It all points to F9 repos:
> >>
> >> [root at sulla yum.repos.d]# yum repolist
> >> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> >> repo id              repo name                                 status
> >> InstallMedia         Fedora 8                                  enabled
> >> adobe-linux-i386     Adobe Systems Incorporated                enabled
> >> fedora               Fedora 9 - i386                           enabled
> >> updates              Fedora 9 - i386 - Updates                 enabled
> >>
> >> Except the InstallMedia one.  Could that be the problem?
> > 
> > Careful here. That explains nothing. $basearch in your *.repo files
> > is also in the "repo name" field, but the repo baseurl could be
> > hardcoded to point to Fedora 8 updates. Do check your *.repo files
> > at a lower level, _not_ with yum repolist.
> > 
> 
> Well, I did take a look at them manually and they /look/ okay.  I just 
> can't tell for certain is $releasever is being inserted as '8' instead 
> of '9' somehow.

Unlikely, because above in "yum repolist" $releasever is 9 for two
repo names. Unless everything is hardcoded ;-) and the InstallMedia
repo is based on $releasever=8.




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