[NTLUG:Discuss] What designates what version you're running?

[Wayne Dahl]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 00:51, Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> I was able to perform the upgrade using an e-mail from one of the developers
> that had been archived in one of the fedora forums.  I don't have it handy
> right now but there is a link for upgrading from fedora 1 to fedora 2.  I
> used the core concepts he outlined in the message to perform a fedora core 1
> to fedora core 3 upgrade.  Everything went reasonably well.  I went through
> after the fact and checked the conf.rpmsave files to make sure any of the
> added options did not make a difference to the configuration and everything
> seemed ok with the exception of yum.  The config files for yum are a bit
> different.  Once I fixed this however everything was ok.

Hrm...searching the fedora-test-list doesn't yield anything about
that...do you have the link or can you direct me to where you found it? 
My big problem with yum is it won't update because it's pulling the
repository for RH9 instead of FC1 because it still thinks this is a RH9
box.  Check the output below...

[root at tuxie wayne]# yum update
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 9 Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/9/os/i386/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file
http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/9/os/i386/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

See?  It looks like it's looking at the RH9 repository instead of FC1. 
Here's my yum.conf file...

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
retries=20
exclude=kernel*

[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever Base
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/os/$basearch

[updates]
name=Fedora Core $releasever updates
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/updates/$basearch

#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/

[legacy-utils]
name=Fedora Legacy utilities for Fedora Core $releasever
baseurl=http://download.fedoralegacy.org/fedora/$releasever/legacy-utils/$basearch

This was taken directly from the Fedora Legacy site.  This is what is
making me think this box isn't upgraded properly or completely. 
$releasever is returning fedora/9/ (which appears to be RH9) instead of
fedora/1/.

Thanks,

Wayne