Re: Yum release version problem in rawhide Fedora 7.Please Help me

On Jun 24, 9:28 am, "hide1...@xxxxxxxxx" <hide1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello everyone:
I'm currently using Fedora 7 which is updated form FC5 by yum. I find
i couldn't use yum to update or install anymore. the Err message is

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7.89/Ever...
[Errno -1] Error importing repomd.xml for fedora: Damaged repomd.xml
file

I notice that the version is 7.89 but it should be 7.After looking
into /etc/yum.repo.d/ I realize that a variable named $releasever is
not correct and this variable is set in yum.conf by disttroverpkg
option. Follow those hints, I changed the content in/etc/fedora-
release file from 7.89 to 7 But THAT DOESN'TWORK. I also managed to
reinstall the fedora-release 7-3 or install fedora-release 7.89-2 and
remove other repo like freshrpm and livna.I guess freshrpm was not
compatible with a rawhide version fedora and massed up my yum.

My QUESTION IS how to change the $releasever in yum repo files in
order to make a correct download path

Another problem is that when i changed fedora.repo file with correct
path.My yum could download primary.sqlite.bz2 from server but the
matadata file's checksum always worong. I want to know where does yum
get checksum file and How to set them in the yum

Thanks.



I look into the source code of yum in /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
yum/config.py

In this file you will find that the releasever var is matched form rpm
database. After that the solution is pretty
easy.

use rpm --force --i fedora-release-7-3.rpm to install fc7
you also have to use rpm -e fedora-release-7.89.rpm to uninstall old
one so that the rpm database could return a correct releasever.

.

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