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Hi, is this the right behaviour of yum? yum.conf has: distroverpkg=redhat-release But yum obviously uses centos-release to find out the distro version. So is yum patched to do this? Thx Rainer

...5, in parseCmdArgs conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile) File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 155, in __init__ self.yumvar['releasever'] = self._getsysver() File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 285, in _getsysver idx = ts.dbMatch('provides', self.distroverpkg) TypeError: rpmdb open failed Trying to rebuild the rpm database results in a similar error. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as this is a remote system that isn't easy for me to get physical access to. 8-( Cheers, Chris

I have performed the 5.1 update via the 5 repo on a couple of systems. I then went to switch these systems to my new local repo using ther $releasever variable. It still has the value of 5, not 5.1 Where is this set? Why was it not changed to 5.1? On the one clean install from the 5.1 isos, $releasever is at 5.1 I think.

...originally was a RedHat 8 server. Then I upgraded to RedHat 9, then Tao Linux 1 and last to CentOS 3 when tao was discontinued. Yes I know that this was probably not the smartest thing in the world but now this is the case and I don't want to reinstall it. Now the question. In yum.conf I have distroverpkg=redhat-release and cat /etc/redhat-release gives: CentOS release 3.7 (Final) But when I run yum update the release reported back is 1.0 yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-1.0 - Addons Server: CentOS-1.0 - Base Until now I have manually changed yum.conf...

Hello, in my CentOS-Base.repo file there is a line baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch and yum update said 'nothing to do'. Then I change this line to baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/i386 and yum updates firefox, squid, sos and so on. That happens on two of my computers, reproducible. Does yum sometimes forget it's release

...when trying to update a machine: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6 public key not available for rsync-2.6.4-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm This brings yum to a halt. Here is my yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 logfile = /var/log/yum.log # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch...

I have updated my instructions on how to roll your own CentOS-4 Live CD. I also made a script which does it all for you. I have also got instructions on how to turn the Live CD into a PXE bootable Live version. All the details can be found here: http://www.byteclub.net/wiki/CentOS_Live John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

...5.1 M . . . dmraid i386 1.0.0.rc11-3_RHEL4_U4 base 396 k and the list continues. This ends with an bunch of unresolved dependencies. ################################# My yum.conf: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 #exclude=kernel* exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d ############################ and here the CentOS-Base.repo: ############################################################# [bas...

I have 2 servers: On both, I did yum update. One upgraded the kernel, the other didn't. Why? TIA, Dave Augustus

After installing clean Centos 5.3 and updating with "yum update" yum starts to fail. I get the following error message YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. 7 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/ removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/base/mirrorlist.txt It looks like the $releasever variable has value 7. Why does

...I need bug or security wise. Also, it is a good idea to make wise use of your yum.conf and specifically the exclude= area (see below yum.conf file listing) [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest exclude=clam* exim perl* postfix sendmail spamassassin distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

...l-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.i686.rpm gives "nothing to do". Yum runs daily via cron. Last kernel installed in /boot via yum is: Sep 27 16:38 vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 /etc/yum.conf contains: [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum keepcache=1 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 metadata_expire=1800 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo contains: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?...

Hi! I'm trying to upgrade my Redhat 3AS server, but I'm encountering problems. The first problem was, I didn't know what repository to use. I settled on http://mirror.centos.org/, but using it is strange, as not all mirror servers have all of the directories, and so sometimes links appear broken, but the problem goes away if I hit reload. A number of them have empty directories,

...E899A92 2004-03-15 [expires: 2009-03-14] I've also deleted the keys, deleted /var/cache/yum ... I don't know what else to do My yum.conf: [main] exclude=httpd* mysql* php* perl* mod_* mod_ssl* spamassassin* cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported kernel-hugemem- unsupported tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://acmserver.cs.ucr.edu/centos/centos/3.4/os/$basearch/ gpg...

My box did upgrade itself automatically from the initial 5.5 DVD installation to 5.7 How can I tell if my box has been automatically upgraded from 5.7 to 5.8 please? I see the CentOS-CR.repo is still in my /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Is that repo responsible for doing the automatic upgrades for Centos 5.x? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts

I get this when i try to yum update: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. I have done yum clean all with no joy. I have two servers with CentOS-4.1 and both are exhibiting htis issue. I have not made

Greetings All, How to does one go about reconfiguring centos's time zone configuration (to the eastern time zone (us)), via the command line? I have tested other GNU/Linux distribution's documentation, tools, files and relevant details with centos and have thus far been unable to find a compatible solution. My apologies if my question is very simple, I have done a fair amount of

...oftware_base/Yumrepo[Livegamer-Software-Base]) Could not evaluate: File /etc/yum.conf does not contain a main section However, my /etc/yum.conf contains this. What''s wrong with that? Is puppet smoking crack? [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum keepcache=0 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 # Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn''t honor this. metadata_expire=1h installonly_limit = 5 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d Doug. -- You received this message because you a...

...64 sqlite-3.3.3-1.2.x86_64 up2date-4.4.69-25.centos4.7.x86_64 rhn-applet-2.1.25-22.centos4.x86_64 glibc-2.3.4-2.25.x86_64 glibc-2.3.4-2.25.i686 rpm-4.3.3-18_nonptl.x86_64 ------------- /etc/yum.conf ------------- [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=centos-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d --------------------------------- /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo --------------------------------- [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base base...

...E899A92 2004-03-15 [expires: 2009-03-14] I've also deleted the keys, deleted /var/cache/yum ... I don't know what else to do My yum.conf: [main] exclude=httpd* mysql* php* perl* mod_* mod_ssl* spamassassin* cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release installonlypkgs=kernel kernel-smp kernel-hugemem kernel-enterprise kernel-debug kernel-unsupported kernel-smp-unsupported kernel-hugemem-unsupported tolerant=1 exactarch=1 [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base baseurl=http://acmserver.cs.ucr.edu/centos/centos/3.4/os/$basearch/ gpgch...