Description of problem: Installing manually via HTTP from a URL of the form http://<server>/redhat/RHEL5/ (with Server/ beneath that) I found at least 1250 packages (in the install type I was doing) which the installer seemed to be trying to download from [...]/RHEL6/ instead. Initially I thought this was just for RPMs with fc6 in the filename. But apparently not. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 5 beta 2. Serving Apache is httpd-2.0.52-28 from a RHEL 4 box. How reproducible: Every time, for me anyway! Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy contents of RHEL 5 beta 2 ISOs to a web-accessible directory called "RHEL5" with /Server/ beneath it. 2. Install from USB key using the vmlinuz and initrd.img from Disk 1's images/pxeboot/ directory. 3. Point installer at URL in 1. 4. Choose any kind of package selection which includes the packages listed in the attached file. Actual results: Failure to install those packages until a symlink from RHEL5 to RHEL6 was created. Install then proceeded as normal. Expected results: Not to fail on asking for those packages. To continue to ask for packages from the correct directory. Additional info: Dunno. Seems to work perfectly when there's no number in the directory, i.e. http://<server>/redhat/RHbeta/ Weird huh?
Created attachment 148316 [details] HTTPD access log of the RHEL 5 beta 2 installer requesting packages from the wrong place
Not really that weird [to me] as I added code to handle people installing from an http server with disc# directories. On failure, I would increment the number and try again. We've fixed some of this (if not all in rawhide), so it shouldn't be too much of a problem to fix.
Seems to be a dupe of bug 225086
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225086 ***