> 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Thanks, that solved my problem. Jens