Re: YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file.
James Antill <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.rpm.yum |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Chad Woolley <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:08 AM, James Antill <[email protected]> wrote: >> This is the main problem, $releasever is set by looking in the rpmdb >> and seeing what provides redhat-release. However with the first run >> of --installroot you don't have an rpmdb, and so $releasever is unset. >> With newer versions of yum you can use --releasever=/ etc. but for >> older versions of yum you'll have to edit all your .repo files and >> manually change the $releasever to something. > > Thank you for the reply, manually editing worked. > > Is there any way I can initialize the rpmdb with the correct > redhat-release, or avoid the need to manually edit the .repo files? No, that's why we added the --releasever option. -- James Antill -- [email protected] http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.29 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching