[CentOS] Problems eith yum (wrong releasever)
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 this happen and how do I fix this? Thanks, Sami ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problems eith yum (wrong releasever)
2009/4/26 Sam Piippo sampii...@gmail.com 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 this happen and how do I fix this? Check that distroverpkg in /etc/yum.conf is redhat-release, if it is, check that centos-release is the only package providing redhat-release by running rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release, you should see centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1 which shows a single package and the version is 5, this is what yum uses to determine releasever... Do you have another package installed that also provides redhat-release? d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problems eith yum (wrong releasever)
Thanks for the comments. I had /var directory that contained files from an old Fedora 7 installation and I think that yum did read the $release variable, as well as package information, from some file in /var. I fixed the problem the easy way and reinstalled the whole system (with having a clean /var directory). Now everything works perfectly. I should had figured this out before posting to the mailing-list, sorry. Sami On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:10 PM, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: 2009/4/26 Sam Piippo sampii...@gmail.com 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 this happen and how do I fix this? Check that distroverpkg in /etc/yum.conf is redhat-release, if it is, check that centos-release is the only package providing redhat-release by running rpm -q --whatprovides redhat-release, you should see centos-release-5-3.el5.centos.1 which shows a single package and the version is 5, this is what yum uses to determine releasever... Do you have another package installed that also provides redhat-release? d ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
