On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:30:47PM +0200, Jens Ahlin enlightened us: > I have an old server that originally was a RedHat 8 server. Then I > upgraded to RedHat 9, then Tao Linux 1 and last to CentOS 3 when tao was > discontinued. Yes I know that this was probably not the smartest thing in > the world but now this is the case and I don't want to reinstall it. > > Now the question. In yum.conf I have distroverpkg=redhat-release and cat > /etc/redhat-release gives: > > CentOS release 3.7 (Final) > > But when I run yum update the release reported back is 1.0 > yum update > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: CentOS-1.0 - Addons > Server: CentOS-1.0 - Base > > Until now I have manually changed yum.conf and replaced $relesever with > whatever version I had but why is $relesever replaced with 1.0 ? > Most likely you have a tao-release package installed. You should probably remove that and install the appropriate centos-release for your version. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263