From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: On fedora, yum should check fedora-release to set the value of the $releasever variable. This does work on FC3. However, on FC4, there is "redhat-relase" as distroverpkg instead of "fedora-release" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.3.2-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core 4 (do not upgrade!) 2. less /etc/yum.conf 3. search for distroverpkg Actual Results: Is "redhat-release" Expected Results: Should be "fedora-release" Additional info: I set the level of this bug to "high" because it prevents updates from yum repositories. Yum seems to fall back to some internal default and uses "3" as the version and tries subsequently to update from a Core/3 repository...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123888 ***
I admit, I was wrong and I opened it for the wrong component. It seems to be an up2date bug. I attached the "intermeta-fedora-extras.repo" to this bug report. There definitely is something fishy in up2date which lets it fall back to "3" as releasever. If I replace the "$releasever" reference in the repo file with a hard coded "4", then everything works fine. # up2date -i yap initRepo Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://yum.intermeta.de/yum/Fedora/Core/4/extras/i386/'] Setting up Package Sacks Excluding Incompatible Archs Finished Setting up Package Sacks Excluding Incompatible Archs Finished Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: intermeta-extras... initRepo Fetching obsoletes list for http://yum.intermeta.de/yum/Fedora/Core/3/extras/i386/... Fetching rpm headers... initRepo bytes=440-32978 There was a fatal error communicating with the server. The message was: An HTTP error occurred: URL: http://yum.intermeta.de/yum/Fedora/Core/3/extras/i386//yap-4.5.5-6.fc4.i386.rpm Status Code: 404 Error Message: Not Found Same configuration with yum: # yum install yap Setting up repositories intermeta-extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for yap to pack into transaction set. yap-4.5.5-6.fc4.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 32 kB 00:00 ---> Package yap.i386 0:4.5.5-6.fc4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: yap i386 4.5.5-6.fc4 intermeta-extras 2.3 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 2.3 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): yap-4.5.5-6.fc4.i3 100% |=========================| 2.3 MB 00:01 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: yap ######################### [1/1] Installed: yap.i386 0:4.5.5-6.fc4 Complete!
Created attachment 116571 [details] Our internal definition for the "Fedora Extras" Repository
Looks to me like a duplicate of Bug #161071
yep, that is right. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161071 ***