From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson (daniel_at_hozac.com)
Date: Thu 05 May 2005 - 21:09:20 BST
Paul S. Gumerman wrote:
> I'm following (and correcting where I can) the CentOS distribution howto
> here: http://linux-vserver.org/CentOS_HowTo
>
> this is on a dual Opteron box, using the x86_64 arch, and I'm having a
> problem with yum.
>
> It seems that the $releasever variable is not being set to "4" or "4.0",
> and so when yum attempts to grab info from the repository, it is trying
> to access
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/CentOS/Null/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
>
> instead of
>
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml
>
> I tried the obvious step of exporting releasever=4, but that had no effect.
>
> Can anyone help?
You should install the centos-release package, or whatever the package
that provides redhat-release is called in CentOS.
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